Medical - Advanced Practice Provider

POSITION OVERVIEW 

As an Advanced Practice Provider at Blended Health, you will provide compassionate evidence-based psychiatric care to adult patients with substance use disorders as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. You with complete a psychiatric evaluation for all admitted patients and conduct follow-up consultations as needed. You will prescribe and manager psychotropic medications for those patients who need them. You will work closely with a staff psychiatrist and other PMHMPs, as well as a multidisciplinary treatment of therapists, medical providers, nurses, and case managers. 

You will assess and treat mental health issues across our continuum of care to help patients safely stabilize and build a strong foundation for long-term recovery from addiction. The ideal candidate has broad direct care experience, ad knowledge of addiction treatment. You should be efficient, flexible, and eager to embrace a team-based approach that models collaborative, solution-based problem solving, and authentic communication. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Admissions and Assessments 

• Evaluate potential admissions flagged as needing psychiatric approval. 

• Prioritize patients with identified safety risk to assess danger to self or others. 

• Conduct a psychiatric evaluation of all the admitted patients within established time frame. 

• Reconcile current psychiatric medications and determine which orders to continue modify or stop (often in consultation with patients outside provider). 

Patient Care 

• Assess and diagnose mental health disorders. 

• Provide psychotherapy as appropriate. 

• Recommend strategies to manage acute or chronic mental health issues. 

• Prescribe psychotropic medication and provide patient education related to intended effects, possible side effects, and anticipated duration of use. 

• Offer guidance in the resolution of acute mental health or behavioral crisis. 

Documentation 

• Meticulously document assessments and observations, interventions and response, and progress towards goals. 

• Create progress notes for each visit and consultation. 

• Enter medication and action orders within the eMAR/ePrescribing platform. 

• Communicate verbal orders clearly to RNs, ensure orders are read back, and sign orders within 24-hours after checking for accuracy. 

• Review results of Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) search. 

Note:  The essential job functions of this position are not limited to the duties listed above. 

PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SPECIAL DEMANDS 

• Ability to sit for long periods (8-10 hours), 

• Ability to reach above and below the waist, turn, twist, and to manipulate small tools (copier, computer, telephone, typewriter, calculator, safe, facsimile machine). 

• Ability to see well enough to read handwritten and typewritten material. 

• Ability to handle a variety of repetitive tasks at a moderate level. 

• Ability to occasionally handle electrical, mechanical, or equipment emergencies. 

• Available to work varied hours (i.e., evenings) as required, maybe on call as needed. 

• Ability to travel between facility locations, and at times, the corporate office. 

• Ability to drive a motor vehicle to designated sites. 

• Ability to handle multiple projects and tasks under deadlines and with short notice. 

REQUIREMENTS