Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Location: Haverhill Massachusetts
Description: Lahey Health Behavioral Services is at the momment seeking for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner right now, this position will be placed in Massachusetts. Detailed specification about this position opportunity please read the description below. Provides direct outpatient psychiatric services through comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, counseling, and psychopharmacological treatment of assigned patients.
Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:
- Basic responsibilities. Provides psychiatric evaluations, ongoing psychiatric assessments and treatments, and counseling to assigned patients. Analyzes patient data and test or examination findings in the diagnosis of mental disorders of assigned patients.!
- Data acquisition/coordination of treatment. Gathers ! and maintains patient information and records, including social, medical, and substance use history obtained from patients, relatives and significant others, and other sources. Also collaborates with physicians, psychotherapists, nurses, psychologists, social workers, or other professionals to obtain client history and to discuss treatment plans and progress.
- Treatments. Develops individualized care plans involving evidence-based psychotherapeutic and/or medication treatments to assigned clients, when indicated. Monitors patient responses to these treatments (including adverse effects for medications) and makes necessary adjustments or recommendations. Focuses on and screens for patient safety and harm-reduction with each patient meeting and with all forms of treatment.
- Documentation . Completes and submits billing sheets and progress notes within seven (7 days of providing service.
- Supervision. Participates in periodic supervision by the Medical ! Director of Community-Based Services, or a designated psychiatrist, and integrates recommendations and other feedback into clinical work performance.
- Adherence to regulations. Adheres to HIPAA and other pertinent regulations and laws mandated by federal and state agencies, including but not limited to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and Board of Regulation in Nursing, Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR), Massachusetts Department of Mental Health and Department of Public Health, and by Lahey Health Behavioral Services and Lahey Hospital and Medical Center.
Must possess knowl! edge of the standard principles and practices of diagnosing and treating (via psychotherapy and psychopharmacology) of mental disorders described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM); also, keeps current with developments in psychiatry via the literature, conferences, Internet, etc. Motivation to prescribe psychopharmacological medications carefully with the aim of maximizing patient benefit while avoiding/minimizing adverse effects and untoward drug interactions.
Must have outstanding planning and implementation skills, a strategic approach to problem-solving, a strong working knowledge of data-reporting and analysis skills, and sound interpersonal skills.
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If you were eligible to this position, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Lahey Health Behavioral Services.
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This posit! ion starts available on: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:02:06 GMT