Licensed Practical Nurse Outpatient Mental Health

Job Description

Job Description:

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) – Outpatient Mental Health & Substance
Use
Mind Healing & Wellness Center – Northborough, MA
Mind Healing & Wellness Center is seeking a compassionate, organized, and dependable
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join our outpatient mental health and substance use disorder
team at our Northborough, Massachusetts location.
The LPN will work in close collaboration with our Nurse Practitioners and clinical team to
support patients receiving psychiatric medication management, substance use disorder treatment,
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Spravato, TMS, and other behavioral health services.
This is a collaborative nursing role. The LPN will assist the Nurse Practitioner with medication
management support, patient monitoring, clinical follow-up, medication ordering and
coordination, injections, and management of our Spravato, TMS, and MAT caseloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Nurse Practitioners in the ongoing care and monitoring of patients.

• Respond to patient medication questions, side effects, changes in symptoms, and other
clinical concerns, communicating findings to the Nurse Practitioner as appropriate.

• Assist with medication ordering and coordination, including working with pharmacies
and specialty pharmacies and ensuring medications are available when needed.

• Manage medication refill requests and assist with medication prior authorizations and
pharmacy-related issues.

• Monitor medications requiring additional follow-up, including laboratory testing, vital
signs, urine toxicology, and other provider-ordered monitoring.

• Administer and coordinate injectable medications as ordered and within LPN scope of
practice, including appropriate documentation and follow-up.

• Monitor patients receiving Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) and work closely
with the Nurse Practitioner to ensure required appointments, medication monitoring,
toxicology testing, injections, and follow-up are completed.

• Assist with coordination and monitoring of the clinic's Spravato and TMS caseloads,
including scheduling, treatment readiness, patient follow-up, attendance, and treatment
progression.

• Coordinate ordering and availability of Spravato and other medications required for
scheduled treatments.

• Maintain and monitor applicable REMS requirements, including required
documentation, patient monitoring, and program compliance.

• Monitor patients during Spravato treatment and the required observation period,
including vital signs, response to treatment, and identification of clinical concerns
requiring Nurse Practitioner involvement.

• Work collaboratively with Nurse Practitioners and TMS staff to monitor patients
throughout their course of TMS treatment, including attendance, symptom changes, side
effects, and required follow-up.

• Ensure required provider evaluations and follow-up visits for Spravato, TMS, MAT, and
medication management are completed.

• Obtain and document vital signs and other appropriate clinical information.

• Assist with urine toxicology collection and monitoring when ordered.

• Follow up on laboratory results, medication orders, injections, and other outstanding
clinical tasks.

• Coordinate with pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, laboratories, hospitals, treatment
facilities, and other members of the patient's care team.

• Assist with coordination of care following hospitalization, emergency department visits,
detoxification, residential treatment, or other transitions of care.

• Respond to patient calls and clinical messages and ensure concerns requiring provider
evaluation are promptly communicated to the Nurse Practitioner.

• Provide patient education regarding medications, treatment expectations, adherence, and
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