Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - PMHNP

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner provides a wide range of mental health services to patients and families in a variety of settings. PMHNPs diagnose and prescribe medications for patients who have psychiatric disorders or substance abuse problems. They are licensed to provide emergency psychiatric services, psychosocial and physical assessment of their patients, treatment plans, and manage patient care. They may also serve as consultants or as educators for families and staff.

The PMHNP has a focus on psychiatric diagnosis, including the differential diagnosis of medical disorders with psychiatric symptoms, and on medication treatment for psychiatric disorders.

• Perform complete initial psychiatric assessments on patients to determine DSM V diagnosis and develop a plan of care including medication prescription if indicated.
• Provide timely documentation of each encounter with a patient including symptoms addressed, need for current treatment, and rationale for any changes in treatment.
• Work in collaboration with other treatment team members to ensure quality of care and consideration of services.
• Conform to standards of timelines in attendance, documentation and quality as defined by agency guidelines and quality assurance plan.
• Seek immediate consultation with physician for the following:
  Emergent conditions requiring prompt medical intervention or hospitalization, Acute decomposition of patients' condition, Patient problems that are not resolving as anticipated, If diagnostic, prescriptive or therapeutic procedure /intervention, cannot be performed by the Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Maintain required level of continuing education and preferred development activities.
• Attend all team meetings, supervision, and clinical hours scheduled.
• Provide follow up psychiatric care including monitoring of pharmacological interventions for assigned patients.
• Assist in quality assurance plan for medical needs of consumers and medication management concerns.
• Comply with all Grace Health Policies and Procedures.
• Other related duties that are medically related by not necessarily included in the above detailed list of responsibilities.

• Grace Health recognizes that managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff. All employees must embrace a team-based approach to patient care and understand that each role is important to our success.
• Team members must demonstrate excellent team communication and coordination to provide quality patient care.
• Care coordination includes communicating with community organizations, health plans, facilities, and specialists.
• Care team members understand and embrace the concept of population management and proactively address the needs of patients and families served by this practice.
• Team members must demonstrate skill and knowledge related to effective communication with vulnerable patient populations.
• Team members must participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities within the organization to ensure patients receive high quality care.
• All team members will be involved in the process of improving quality incomes.
• Team members will participate in the review and evaluation processes of practice performance and help to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Team members will participate in Grace Health's advocacy program.

• Follows policies and procedures of the office, including administrative, clinical, quality assurance, and personnel
• Maintains good attendance (daily, meetings, and other assignment tasks)
• Maintains timely documentation of all work assignments
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Routinely keeps supervisor informed about…