Nurse Practitioner Behavioral Health Remote

** Active PMHNP License Required in California or Texas. **

Mix of days and nights, with weekend and holiday rotation

Exempt(salaried)

Behavioral Health

3, 12-hour shifts weekly/ 0.9 FTE

Director of Behavioral Health

Avel eCare is seeking a dedicated Nurse Practitioner for our Behavioral Health team. This role assumes the responsibility for the provision of medical management of patients inAvele Care Behavioral  Heal thunder the direction and supervision of a physician.

Nurse Practitioners practice under the rules and regulations of the Nurse Practice Act of the states in which the practitioner is providing services.

• Workswith the psychiatrist and other staff (RN, support specialist, MSWs) on shift in the acute assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patient's presenting to emergency departments, medical inpatient units, and inpatient behavioral health/crisis stabilization units.
• Must be comfortable assessing patients for acute suicide and violence risktorecommend an appropriate level of care.
  
  This may require collaboration with family when indicated.
• Is responsible for placing direct admit orders for customers who request support for inpatient behavioral health/crisis stabilization units.
• Assists with rounding/evaluation when requested for patients in all environments supported by the service.
• Discusses patient cases with accepting psychiatric facility if requested by customer site.
• Assistsin completing Crisis Response Plans with patientstosupport nursing staff.
• Recognizes and reacts appropriately to environmental safety factors related to patient care. Understands, applies, and supports practice policies, procedures,goals,and standards. Effectively provides patient instruction related to environmental care and safety standards. Alwaysfollowsprocedures,policies,and standards as outlines by Avele Care. Effectively contributes to the development and attainment of nurse practitioner practice goals. Effectively ensures that QA is compiled, reports are prepared for administrative and regulatory agencies.
• Maximizes opportunities in the clinical setting for education of staff,patients,and families.
• Participate in the evaluation ofAveleCAREmetrics, including performance against clinical aims.
• Works collaboratively with other health care professionals and agencies to provide, and where appropriate, coordinates services to individuals,families,and groups and to promote quality care for patients.
• Demonstrates clinical, interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Works to enhance unit collaboration tightenworkflowsand assure ongoing commitment to achieving high quality clinical standards. Assists clinical and administrative leaders in crafting remediation strategies when indicated.

• Graduate of an NLN accredited school of nursing or equivalent.
• Graduate of an accredited
  
  Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner(PMHNP) programis required.
• Master’sor Doctoratedegreerequired.

• An active Nurse Practitioner California or Texas license required.
• APRN licensurerequiredwithin the states that
  
  Avele
  
  Careacute inpatient servicesareproviding service within 9 months of hire.
• Federal DEA and/or State DEA licensurerequiredwithin the states that
  
  Avele
  
  Care behavioral healthservicesare being provided within 9 months of hire.
• Anactive Federal and State DEA certification is required.
• Completion of state specific certification/education within theinitialand renewal time periodsis.

Avel eCare is a nationally recognized telemedicine care provider offering the largest and most comprehensive virtual health networks in the world. Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avel operates a multispecialty telemedicine network, partnering with more than 650 health care systems, rural hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, school districts, prisons, skilled nursing facilities and law enforcement agencies to deliver innovative telemedicine care across the country.

During the past three decades, Avel has developed eight distinct telehealth services, —Behavioral Health, Critical Care, Emergency, Hospitalist, Pharmacy, Specialty Care, Senior Care and School Health—in response to needs expressed by the communities and clinicians whom Avel serves. Within the past year alone, Avel’s virtual health care delivery model has impacted the lives of nearly two million patients. The efficiency of these…