Advance Practice RN-Behavioral

JOB SUMMARY

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMNNP) will provide outpatient psychiatric evaluation and medication management services at King’s Daughters Outpatient Behavioral Medicine. The PMHNP will work in coordination with physician collaboration including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions to provide behavioral health services to adult and youth clients. This position will be supervised by a psychiatrist with whom there is a Collaborative Practice Agreement established upon hire.

Services will initially be office-based, with the opportunity to grow telehealth services in the future to serve clients at remote locations. The PMHNP will work in collaboration with the clinical and office staff to coordinate client care, assist with insurance pre-authorization, and caseload management.

Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:

• Master’s or Doctorate Degree in Nursing with focus on Psychiatric nursing.
• Graduation from a state-certified advance practice program specializing in psychiatry/mental health.
• Achieves and maintains a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Certification.
• Maintains active APRN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and/or State of Ohio.
• Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS).
• At least 1-2 years providing direct patient care to persons receiving treatment for psychiatric disorders.
• Ability to work with both adult and youth/child populations.
• Achieves and maintaintains Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Certification.

• One –Two years of PMHNP experience.

• Constantly works near moving mechanical parts.
• Constantly exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
• Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
• Frequently required to walk and move about.
• Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
• Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
• Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
• Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
• Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.