Nurse Advanced Practice

Are you looking for a purpose-driven career? At Metrocare, we serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying.

Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state.

Job Description:

JOB DESCRIPTION

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families, and adults we serve.

The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is a registered professional nurse currently licensed in the State of Texas, who is prepared for advanced nursing practice by virtue of knowledge and skills obtained through a post-basic or advanced educational program of study acceptable to the Board of Nurse Examiners (BNE) and the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners. The advanced practice nurse is prepared to practice in an expanded role to provide health care to individuals, families, and/or groups in a variety of settings.

The advanced practice nurse acts independently and/or in collaboration with other health care professionals in the delivery of health care services. The APN is a primary health care provider who provides nursing and medical services to individuals, families, and groups, across the life span, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention as well as the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diseases.

The APN’s services include but are not limited to ordering, conducting, and interpreting appropriate diagnostic and lab tests, prescription of pharmacological agents and treatments and non-pharmacological therapies.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential functions listed here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the job. Responds to questions from patients receiving service and/or their families directly and proactively. Provides information (in language appropriate to their level of functioning) to assist in understanding and managing symptoms of mental illness. Conducts and documents psychiatric evaluations under physicians’ supervision, in accord with Metrocare Services procedures.

Responds flexibly to handle unscheduled evaluations of individuals who walk in and whose level of functioning appears to indicate an imminent crisis or immediate need. Takes an active role in interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss evaluations and diagnostic formulations and to assist the team and the patient to develop an appropriate plan of service which: clearly states problems; indicates goals, measurable objectives, and intervention strategies to address each identified problem;

and identifies staff responsible for each planned intervention within a specified time frame. Participates in the development and updating of the individual service plans. Demonstrates…