What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant position at Tandem Health?
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides behavioral health services to adults, adolescents and children within the scope and practice.
- Obtains comprehensive health histories, requests special diagnostic and laboratory tests, interprets test results, and develops comprehensive psychiatric treatment plans.
- Provides mental health assessments, diagnoses, and treatment plans in identified areas; provides medication management for patients; and maintain appropriate health records.
- Prescribes pharmaceutical therapy consistent with medical evaluation, treatment plan and current standards of practice.
- Collaborates with guardians, relatives, and significant others on client's conditions and treatment when clinically appropriate and as allowable by law.
- Participates in a team management approach to patient care/treatment.
- Collaborates with precepting Physician(s) and other healthcare disciplines, as appropriate.
- Refers clients for more specialized or inpatient interventions as situations arise.
- Participates in after-hours phone call rotation for Behavioral Health.
- Maintains appropriate documentation of clinical services in the EMR, including all necessary billing information.
- Maintains quality care through participation in peer review and quality improvement programs.
- Actively participates in quarterly Provider/Continuous Performance Improvement/Pharmacy and Therapeutics meetings and other meetings as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- APRN licensure in the state of South Carolina with prescriptive authority and Certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; or Licensed as a Physician Assistant by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Board of Medical Examiners.
- Current Federal DEA Registration and SC Controlled Substance Registration
- Previous experience assessing and providing medication management for patients with behavioral health disorders in a psychiatric or primary care setting preferred.
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