Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; Part Time

Position Summary

Boston Medical Center (BMC) is more than a hospital. It is a network of support and care that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in need each year. It is the largest and busiest provider of trauma and emergency services in New England. Emphasizing community-based care, BMC is committed to providing consistently excellent and accessible health services to all—and is the largest safety-net hospital in New England.

The hospital is also the primary teaching affiliate of the nationally ranked Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (BUSM) and a founding partner of Boston Health Net – an integrated health care delivery system that includes many community health centers. Join BMC today and help us achieve our Vision 2030, a long-term goal to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.

Join a growing, mission-driven, academic Department of Psychiatry! The Nurse Practitioner-Psychiatry is responsible for providing comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and consultations and thoughtful psychopharmacological evaluation and treatment. As an expert professional, the Nurse Practitioner is responsible and accountable for the application of the nursing process, inter and intradepartmental liaison, education, leadership and patient care management across the health care continuum from preventative, acute care through discharge.

There are opportunities for receiving and providing supervision of clinical practice, quality improvement, research involvement, and other consultative services.

As a novel aspect to the role, in addition to Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner opportunities within BMC’s Outpatient Psychiatry clinic and subspecialty programs, Nurse Practitioners have the opportunity to spend part of their week as an integrated psychiatric provider at one or more Community Health Center sites that BMC partners with through the Boston Health Net and other partnerships across Massachusetts. This is a unique opportunity to provide diagnostic and psychopharmacological consultation and short-term management in diverse community health settings, in collaboration with primary care providers.

While serving in this community health capacity, Nurse Practitioners continue to receive central support from BMC’s Department of Psychiatry and maintain an academic affiliation with Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Outpatient Psychiatry

Part Time, Monday-Friday, Days

• Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to patients and families according to established collaborative protocols and standards of care.
• Sets priorities for appropriate and efficient management of patient care that reflects cost effective management of time, available human resources, supplies, and equipment.
• Performs psychiatric evaluations and evidence-based psychopharmacologic treatment prescribed guidelines and appropriate to patient needs.
• Continually evaluates patient clinical safety and initiates referrals to appropriate higher levels of care as necessary including initiating Section 12 protocol, referring patient to Boston Emergency Services (BEST) team or BMC Emergency Room. Coordinates with receiving program or facility to ensure clinical awareness of situation and advocates for patient’s needs.
• Conducts discharge appointments and medication reconciliation with patients discharging from inpatient facilities and higher levels of care to transition them back into outpatient services.
• Provides timely patient clinical support between visits through returning clinical calls to patients, facilities, and collaborating providers.
• Refers to appropriate inter-department specialty programs for diagnostic clarity, treatment recommendations, and clinical support.
• Provides clinical support for departmental patient care needs including medication refill and urgent appointments, and assistance with refill requests through electronic medical record.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate lab and diagnostic tests to assess patient's clinical problems and…