Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

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Qualification requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Education and/Or experience

• Possess and maintain graduate professional nurse, and nurse practitioner registration in a state, which must be unrestricted, current, complete, and active.
• Obtain Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner or Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
• Must attain and maintain a California State License.
• Possess Bachelor’s degree in Nursing followed by a Master’s degree in Psychiatric or Mental Health Nursing from a state approved and accredited school for professional nursing training

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Necessary skills

• Possess strong understanding of societies and their impact on mental health; ability to solve problems, monitor and examine patients
• Be compassionate, sensitive, and possess strong reasoning and thinking skills
• Possess strong computer skills, including working with word processing and data entry applications, as well as with medical software applications
• Has a contagious and positive work ethic, inspires others, and models behavior of being genuine, caring, and friendly.
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication that is clear, well-organized, and demonstrates an understanding of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates great problem-solving, team leadership, and organization skills.
• Possess advanced physical and psychosocial health assessment skills
• Have sound knowledge of adult health and related diagnostic and clinical therapies
• Demonstrate ability to deal with high acuity/complexity and rapidly changing situations

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Work environment

Described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Variations in conditions may occur under certain circumstances.

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Confidentiality

Maintains patient, employee, and Foundation confidentiality at all times, discussing patient or employee business only with appropriate parties who have a bona fide need to know; and communicating only the minimum amount of information necessary with respect to protected health information (PHI) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

1. Agreement and acceptance

2. I have read the above job description and fully understand the requirements set forth and will perform all duties and responsibilities to the best of my ability.

Monday - Friday, 8

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• AM - 5:00 PM