PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER (ACU)

Closing Date: OPEN UNTIL FILLED (OUF)

Salary Range:  Dependent on Experience (DOE)

***APPLICANT MUST HAVE A VALID UNRESTRICTED INSURABLE DRIVERS LICENSE***

***RESUME AND REFERENCES ARE REQUIRED***

ESSENTIAL DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic mental illness in children, adolescent, and adult patients. Gives total patient care including prevention, health maintenance, early diagnosis, treatment and follow up services.
• Performs initial admissions intake, on admitted patients, and discharge planning. Practitioner may discharge patients not initially assigned to them at the time of admission in the ACU. The discharging Practitioner provider will be responsible for
  ensuring that the patient has an appropriate disposition and discharge plan must include ordering the appropriate discharge medications, care instructions, appropriate outpatient follow-up and referrals.
• When necessary, perform biopsychosocial evaluations and make appropriate assessments to determine a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan, which may involve admission, discharge, and arranging for specialized care.
• Participate in treatment and discharge planning meetings with interdisciplinary team members.
• Performs rounding on admitted patients for on-going medication management at least twice a week and/or sometimes daily or as needed depending on patient’s plan of care needs.
• Provides supportive therapy, counseling and guidance to individuals, families, and groups. Conducts history and physical examination of patients, assesses physical condition, and orders various tests (e.g., laboratory, neurological, and psychological tests).
• Where necessary, provides case management functions; provides short or long-term psychotherapy; prescribes  psychotropic medications and supervises medication maintenance by evaluation of the patient's response to drug therapy and determines continuing medication regime in consultation with physician.
• Provides medical care and preventive services to patients, including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, accidents, growth and development. Provides nursing functions such as measurement and interpretation of vital signs, lab results and administration of intra-venous medications and monitors patient’s response to drug therapy and provides education on medication interaction(s).
• Maintains knowledge and proficiency in medical practices through continuing education, staff meetings, and workshops, and home study.
• When necessary and required, provides full range of emergency services or crisis intervention including evaluation and assessment of patients in the Emergency Department. This may include, but not limited to, patients who present with acute crises while on admission in the ACU and may require higher level of care.
• Be available on a twenty four (24) hour stand-by, call back and on call rotation schedule when needed for crisis or any other psychiatric needs.
• Teaches patients and family members on ways to participate, maintain and/or improve their welling and health status.
• Maintains records and reports on patients, personal activities and other required information for use in program operation, quality assurance and other purposes.
• Participates in Quality Assurance Improvement Performance (QAPI) review processes. 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS
Experience:

• Minimum of One (1) year direct work experience working in an inpatient psychiatric facility working with adolescents and/or an adult population.

Education:

• Completion of an Advanced Practice Registered Nursing School in the following area:
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Lifespan track

 Licensure:

• Active unrestricted Advanced Practice Registered Nurse license from any U.S. State or Territory in the following areas:
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Lifespan
• State licensure with independent practice privileges with prescriptive authority and admitting privileges.
• National Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in the following area:
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) – Lifespan
• Current, valid, unrestricted Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) License.
• Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse license from any U.S. State or Territory.

Please email degree or transcripts to:  Ophelia.Anthony@fdihb.org

NAVAJO/INDIAN PREFERENCE

FDIHB, Inc. is located within the Navajo Nation and, in accordance with Navajo Nation law, has implemented a Navajo/Indian Preference in Employment Policy. Pursuant to this Policy, applicants who meet the minimum qualifications for this position and who are enrolled members of the Navajo Nation will be given primary preference in hiring and employment for this position and members of other federally-recognized Indian tribes will be given secondary preference. Other candidates will be considered only after all candidates entitled to primary or secondary preference have been fully considered.