PMHNP-BC at OhanaPsych

We are OhanaPsych and are opening physical locations in the state the first office will be in Honolulu. We have been providing telepsychiatry service for the past five years. Practice is serving adults and children who live in Hawaii. We are looking for candidates in Hawaii now. If you are not in Hawaii, you must have a definitive move date. This position will not be remote. We will be opening other offices on other islands this year as well. If you are moving to one of those please apply. MUST be PMHNP-BC and being able to practice without restrictions in Hawaii.

The Aloha Spirit is part of every interaction we have with our clients and among each other. Working with us, you will appreciate every day for your part to help people in Hawaii access psychiatric care.

Work from office for a well-respected and growing psychiatry practice, working four days week 10 hour days 8.5 hours daily seeing clients. One-hour administrative time 30 minutes for lunch.

Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary

Diagnoses and treats acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team.

General Accountabilities

• Analyzes and interprets patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop proper diagnoses.
• Diagnoses or treats acute health care problems such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.
• Recommends diagnostic or therapeutic interventions.
• Prescribes medications.
• Educates patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses.
• Orders, performs, or interprets the results of diagnostic tests.
• Maintains complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
• Detects and responds to adverse drug reactions.
• Keeps abreast of developments in nursing.
• Refer patients for primary care conditions.
• Schedules follow-up visits to check patients or evaluate health or illness care.
• Performs routine or annual psychiatric/physical examinations.
• Supervises or coordinates patient care or support staff activities.
• Maintains current knowledge of state legal regulations for nurse practitioner practice.
• Keeps abreast of regulatory processes and payer systems.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree PMHNP-BC
• Experience: 3-5 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. However, we do mentor to success new graduates.
• Licenses/Certifications: Certifications and/or licensures having a Board of nursing license that does have prescriptive authority. Maintaining the NED prescriptive certificate in Hawaii so that we may have oral call-in capability. Providers that are not physically located in the state do not have to maintain a DEA license. However, they may be required to do this to maintain NED certificate. And all providers’ licenses must be unencumbered with the ability to write for controlled substances if needed.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written.
• Communication
• Active listening
• Active learning
• Critical thinking
• Social perceptiveness
• Monitoring
• Service orientation.
• Complex problem solving
• Instructing

Benefits

Benefits include 7 paid holidays per year, generous PTO, health insurance, disability insurance, and a Simple IRA. Additionally, our staff are incredible people to work with. We look forward to receiving your resume.

Student loan repayment options are available https://ahec.hawaii.edu/ahecsite-forhealthcareprofessionals/loan-repayment-help.html for full-time work up to $50,000 per year to your service commitment 2 years. Must have an employment date.

Expectations

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  Medication refills within 72 hours per our office policy.
• Replying to messages by your support person on the days that you are working and Microsoft teams within 2 hours of receiving.
• Being available and checking your schedule by the beginning of the shift 7 AM HST clients may be added at the last minute.
• Completing and cleaning out your task list in practice fusion at least once a week.
• Peer review: reviewing 5 charts per quarter and giving them back to the medical director so that we may have a process improvement plan.
• Reading your emails and replying appropriately at least once a day when working.
• Expectation of all notes to be clearly completed within 48 hours of seeing the client. To have a less than 5% failure of this.
• Writing letters to our referral sources after evaluation if found either by you or the front office staff to involve primary care in an integrated treatment model. This letter should be written within 48 hours of doing the evaluation. Same period as notes to be completed. Certainly, reaching out to primary care with the phone call will suffice make sure to documented in your note. The expectation of the practice group this is done 100% of the time. Nurse Practitioner letters are designed to communicate with the primary care team treatment plans barriers to care not just that we have seen the client. If we are not taking the client in our practice because of a treatment impasse recommendation for care need to be conveyed to the primary care team. EX. client will not agree to coming off benzodiazepines. They do not want appropriate care for their diagnosis etc. etc. (This sets as apart from what our competition is doing and is Integral to our success.)
• Scheduling your follow-up appointments at the end of your session on a routine basis. Or communicate with your front office staff person to schedule the follow-up for you. This should be done 99% of the time by the provider. This is in order so you can control your schedule. And so the client does not drop off your schedule, because no appointment was scheduled for follow-up. Clients can choose to self-schedule but please document this in your note.
• In case of not being able to report to work at 7 AM on your scheduled day to work. You do communicate with the practice manager or anyone on the executive management team. Giving sufficient time notice or as soon as available that you will not be able to work prior to 7 AM so that we can tell clients that they cannot be seen or be moved to other providers’ schedules.