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Job Title

Psychiatric Health Nurse Practitioner

Job Description

Closing Date: Open Until Filled (OUF)

Salary Range: Dependent on Experience (DOE)

Applicant must have a valid unrestricted insurable driver’s 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.
• Performs initial admissions intake, on admitted patients, and discharge planning.
• When necessary, perform biopsychosocial evaluations and make appropriate assessments to determine a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan.
• 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.
• Where necessary, provides case management functions; provides short or long-term psychotherapy; prescribes psychotropic medications and supervises medication maintenance.
• Provides medical care and preventive services to patients, including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, accidents, growth and development.
• 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.
• 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 inpatient psychiatric experience with Adolescents and/or Adults as a Psychiatric Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC)

Education:

• Completion of a Doctor of Nursing (DNP), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), or a Post-Master's Certificate in a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program (PMHNP) accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), in the following area:
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) - Lifespan

Licensure:

• Active unrestricted Advanced Practice Registered Nurse license from a full "opt-out" U.S. State/Territory in the following areas:
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Lifespan
• Active, unrestricted, unencumbered Board Certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or an equivalent body 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.
• Active Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) and maintain certification.

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.