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OUTPATIENT BEHAVORIAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER on DUKE REGIONAL CAMPUS

Job Location Duke Behavioral Health North Durham (Outpatient facility on DRH Campus located at 3643 N. Roxboro Rd, Durham, NC 27704)

Job Summary

Provide medication management to patients seeking psychiatric care in an outpatient setting. Completes diagnostic evaluations and ongoing medication management for patients, orders and schedules appropriate laboratory studies and works within a multi-disciplinary environment.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for behavioral health patients
• Prescribe necessary treatment and services for quality patient care
• Take patient histories, conduct physical examinations, and record the date in the patient's record
• Write progress notes; prepare patient workups and summaries noting pertinent positive and negative findings
• Obtain psychosocial history relevant to patient care
• Assume responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients
• Order and schedule laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures
• Explain necessity, preparation as well as the nature and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the patient.

 Job Eligibility Requirements

Education Graduate of accredited MSN or DNP Family Medicine or Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. (Note: PAs are not being considered for this position.)

Certification PMHNP or FNP

License Current and uninhibited RN License issued by or recognized by the NCBON with authorization to practice as NP

DEA - Federal and State prescriptive authority

Experience 1 year’s minimum experience as a PMHNP or FNP. 3 years of RN psych experience strongly preferred.

Job Hours

Day shift, 40 hours per week with some flexibility in scheduling

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