Job Purpose Summary
The Psychiatric Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), also known as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), is responsible for providing comprehensive psychiatric care to residents in a licensed mental health residential facility. This includes psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, medication management, and collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team to support recovery and stabilization.
Objectives and Key Results
- Medical Orders signed upon admission of the client
- Patient needs to be seen within24hours of admission
- Ability to complete a medication management appointment in30 minutes
- Ability to complete a psychiatric evaluation in60minutes
Responsibilities
Include:
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including mental status exams and diagnostic evaluations
- Diagnose and treat mental health and co-occurring substance use disorders in accordance withDSM-5 criteria
- Prescribe, monitor, and adjust psychotropic medications in compliance with Ohio laws and standards of care
- Develop, implement, and update individualized treatment plans in collaboration with the clinical team
- Provide ongoing medication management and follow-up care
- Monitor residents for medication efficacy, side effects, and potential interactions
- Respond to psychiatric emergencies and provide crisis intervention as needed
- Collaborate with therapists, nurses, case managers, and other staff to ensure coordinated care
- Maintain accurate, timely, and compliant clinical documentation
- Educate residents and families on diagnoses, medications, and treatment plans
- Participate in case conferences, treatment team meetings, and quality improvement initiatives
- Documentation-Medication management/ evals-completed and signed within 24 hours
- Ability to administer Long-Acting Injectables
Job Type: Full-time
Required education/qualifications
- Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nursing from an accredited program
- Current licensure as an APRN in the State of practice
- Certification as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) through American Nurses Credentialing Center
- Current DEA registration and prescriptive authority in Pennsylvania
- Active Certificate to Prescribe (CTP) in state of practice
- Minimum of [1–3] years of experience in psychiatric or behavioral health settings (residential experience preferred)
Required experience
• Minimum of [1–3] years of experience in psychiatric or behavioral health settings (residential experience preferred)
Proper Knowledge and Skills
- Medical Competencies
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of psychopharmacology, prescribing medications, and DEA/CDS regulations
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of ordering and interpreting lab work
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of diagnostic criteria, DSMV,
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of administration and interpretation of Clinical Assessment Tools such as AIMS, PHQ9, Columbia Scale
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of co-occurring disorders
- Demonstrates sound knowledge of Crisis management and assessment/management of suicidal ideation
- Produces high quality and clinically appropriate documentation in a timely manner
- Core Competencies
- Proper English and grammar, usage and spelling
- Software application related to the field
- General offices principles and practices
- Basic computer knowledge including email etiquette
- Professional phone and customer service demeanor
- Demonstrate Motivational Interviewing Skills
- Demonstrate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Demonstrate Educational Strategies
Physical requirements
- Must be able to lift20-50 lbs.
- Occasional to frequent walking, sitting, standing, driving
- Close eye work (computers, typing, reading, writing)
Environmental Factors
- Communicable diseases
- Hot/cold temperatures
- Environmental conditions may vary
Required licenses or certifications
- Advanced Practice Nursing Certification/PMHNP
- Master or Doctorate
- DEA/CDS
- ACLS certification
