What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner 5hrs / wk. -Walker County position at QCHC Inc?
EOE Statement
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Description
Position Summary : The Psychiatric Prescriber is responsible for managing the mental health needs of inmates, assessing referred inmates for psychiatric medication, as well as overseeing and reviewing charts for accuracy regrading mental health documentation and follow-up.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee that the mental health care of all inmates is being met
- Utilize therapeutic interventions to assist identified inmates during their incarceration
- Coordinate with medical and correctional personnel to provide optimized care
- Render accurate diagnosis or diagnostic impression based on information obtained during initial interview
- Keep up-to-date, concise, and accurate documentation
- Ensure that company goals and objectives are achieved
- Ensure that contractual obligations and patient expectations are met
- Ensure all mental health services are in compliance with the requirements of NCCHC, ACA, and professional medical standards
- Participate in a collaborative approach of patient management to provide the resolution of diagnostic and therapeutic problems and the implementation of effective solutions
- Build productive working relationships with supervisors, security staff, healthcare staff, patients, vendors, and patient
- Establish and maintain professional relationships where you will be viewed by others as trusted and respectful
- Follow all internal policies and procedures to ensure appropriate clinical processing / documentation
- Other duties as assigned by the Corporate Mental Health Director or the Corporate Medical Director
Requirements :
Education, Skills and Competencies
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Position Requirements
Education, Skills and Competencies
Full-Time / Part-Time
Part-Time
Shift
Days
Hourly Rate
Position
Psychiatric Prescriber
Exempt / Non-Exempt
Non-Exempt
Location
Walker Co, AL
About the Organization
Welcome to Quality Correctional Health Care. We are a physician-owned company exclusively devoted to providing inmate healthcare services in the correctional environment. We have a proven track record devoted exclusively to providing inmate healthcare services in corrections environments. We currently provide healthcare to approximately 12,000 inmates in over sixty jails in six states. We serve facilities that range in size from small 20-bed municipal jails to large, multi-site detention facilities with 1,000 inmates. Our mission is simple yet critical : 'To seamlessly integrate cost effective affordable and quality correctional health care into the corrections environment.' -Johnny Bates, MD, CEO and Founder.
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