Job Description

PRINCIPAL MISSION:

Under the general supervision of the Department and in clinical collaboration with a physician, the nurse practitioner provides comprehensive health care, determines and delivers primary care, engages in health and mental health screening and disease prevention. Supervision, consultation and teaching/training maybe provided to nursing, counseling, and other health care professionals.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promote a safe, cooperative and professional health care environment to ensure optimum patient carePromote a safe, cooperative and professional health care environment to ensure optimum patient care
• Adheres to all hospital policies, procedures, rules and regulations, including but not limited to, absenteeism, ETIME, cellular telephone usage, dress code and rules of conduct.
• Makes Customer Service a priority, treating customers (patients, visitors, and co-workers) in a professional manner exercising courtesy and tact. Effectively communicates with patients and others about SBH services in their area(s) of expertise or responsibility and ensures that concerns, questions or issues reach the right person(s) in SBH in a timely fashion.
• May be assigned to work in any division of the department.
• Participates in peer review and the review of protocols and procedures.
• Performs diagnostic evaluations of assigned patients.
• Requisitions appropriate consultations and manages assigned inpatients.
• Participation in multidisciplinary treatment planning and treatment efforts
• Timely writing of complete orders for medication, level of observation, requisitions for laboratory investigations, diet, passes, discharges and other orders, as required.
• Timely renewal of orders.
• Provides appropriate referrals for outpatient treatment to assigned patients.
• Complete and timely documentation of care, according to the guidelines of the Departments of Psychiatry and Health Information Management
• Psychiatric evaluation, recommendations for psychiatric treatment or referral and follow-up of assigned medical and surgical patients.
• Emergency Department evaluation, treatment and disposition, as required
• Committee work, as assigned by Department Directors and Chair.

The above statements reflect the general duties considered necessary to describe the principle functions of the job as identified, and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all work requirements that may be inherent in the job.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience:

• Master of Science Degree in Nursing with an accredited Nurse Practitioner curriculum and three years of nursing experience Required.
• Graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing, and from a recognized college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Master’s Degree in a health related field and certification as a Nurse Practitioner from an accredited program and, in addition, three years of nursing experience Required.

Credentials Required:

• Current valid license to practice nursing in New York State
• Certification as ANP, FNP or PNP with prescriptive privileges by New York State
• ANA certification in Adult or Family Practice preferred

Experience/Skills Required:

• Experience treating psychiatric patients.
• General knowledge of psychiatric illnesses and their treatment, including
• Solid knowledge of Psychopharmacology.