Psychiatric Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) -WCCW

Psychiatric Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner

The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified individual for the position of Psychiatric Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), in Gig Harbor Washington. This is a day shift position that will require work to be completed onsite at the facility.

The goal of the psychiatric ARNP is to provide services to mentally ill incarcerated individuals for the Washington State Department of Corrections. The position contributes to the mission to improve public safety and to provide medically necessary care by providing quality psychiatric prescriber services to mentally ill incarcerated individuals, including psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management, crisis intervention; acute treatment; long-term management;

and consultation with other clinicians and custody staff. The position is expected to adhere to the standards for quality psychiatric care defined within professional guidelines, the DOC Health Plan, the DOC formulary and other applicable Statewide publications and algorithms. This position is a critical element of facility security due to the highly complex and sensitive correlation between mental illness, appropriate prescriptive therapy and behavioral outcomes.

A completed application packet will include:

• A detailed resume
• A cover letter.
• Three professional references
• Required Transcripts

Applications will be reviewed as they are received. The hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It is to the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible.

Duties can include:

• Provide direct patient services. Collaborating with a licensed psychiatrist, provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis and medication management for the mentally ill incarcerated individuals. Services to assigned patients continue if they are moved to segregation or COA.
• Assess, monitor and interpret objective and subjective data collected about the health status, clinical condition or situation of individual's family; observe, inspect, and examine to identify patterns and variances from the desired outcome.
• Diagnose mental health related problems and determine outcomes
• Participate as a member of the multidisciplinary team in treatment planning with a primary focus on evaluation diagnosis and medical management. Develop psychopharmacological aspects of the treatment plan.
• Ensure continuity of care. Deliver health care, defining time frames and pathways for delivery of services and determining priorities and sequences of care to be provided.
• Implement plan of care by providing direct patient care; directing others about the urgency, time frames and methods to deliver health care on and off site; determining when need for care or services become more urgent, need clarification or another type or level of intervention; taking action as necessary to provide orders and accomplish prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure, process and time frames for service delivery; the expected effects of treatment or intervention; the outcomes to be achieved; revision of the plan of care to prevent complications and intervene to address new or emerging problems or to improve care and service delivery.
• Obtain informed consent for treatment and appropriately utilize surrogate decision-makers when patients are incompetent.
• Initiate and renew involuntary antipsychotic medication, including preparing documents and testifying at hearings when clinically appropriate.
• Participate in release planning including prescribing appropriate release medications.
• Provide and ensure effective communication and documentation; collaborate and communicate effectively.
• Establish therapeutic relationships that preserve professional boundaries with patients.
• Counsel, teach and assist patients
• Provide accurate authoritative information to groups or communities
• Actively participate in clinic/facility-wide Coordinated Quality Improvement Program (CQIP) meetings, projects and programs
• Participate/represent the facility on…