Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant | Behavioral Health

Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant | Behavioral Health | Full Time Days

We are growing our Advanced Practice Provider team at our new state‑of‑the‑art facility where we provide exceptional mental health treatment services for individuals. This position will be responsible for caring for our inpatient hospital patients.

• Provides inpatient and/or outpatient psychiatric care with the supervision and consultation of medical staff.
• Completes psychiatric evaluations, performs a mental status examination, orders and interprets tests.
• Makes diagnoses and institutes appropriate treatment plans; works in collaboration with other team members which may include medicine, social work, nursing, psychology, behavioral techs, physicians in other departments as well as support staff.
• Performs nursing functions independently.
• Provider-level clinical duties including face‑to‑face patient assessments, response to medical emergencies in‑house, and coordination of any necessary patient transfers.

• Requires Master’s Degree (MSN) in Psychiatric‑Mental Health (PMH) Nursing or other MSN with additional coursework for eligibility for PMH Board Certification OR Requires Bachelor’s Degree and completion of an AMA approved Physician Assistant program.
• Must be licensed as a Registered Nurse, and certified from MI State Board of Nursing as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) and ANA/ANCC Psychiatric‑Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) OR Michigan state licensure and continued certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistant (NCCPA).
• Requires DEA License and BCLS certificate.

• Organization:
  Behavioral Services
• Department:
  Psychiatry IPD-Kingswood
• Henry Ford Health
  
  Location:
  
  Behavioral Services
• Shift: Day Job
• Union Code:
  Not Applicable

• Associate

• Full‑time

• Health Care Provider

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