Addiction Medicine SUD Nurse Practitioner BWFH

Brigham & Women's Physicians Organization; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 136,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is seeking a licensed Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join the Addiction Consult Team. The role runs 9-6 with 4–10 hour shifts and no weekends or holidays, focusing on psychiatric assessments and comprehensive care plans for patients with substance use disorders.

The NP will work with a multidisciplinary team and may precept learners. Requires MA NP license and Master's in Nursing, with 2 years of psychiatric NP experience.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing is required.
• Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner license is required.
• CARN-NP preferred or obtained within 18 months of employment.
• 2 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner required.
• Solid understanding of psychiatric clinical practices.
• Ability to conduct psychiatric assessments and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to psychiatric patients.
• Performs biopsychosocial and psychopharmacological evaluations.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Develops plans of care and follow-up based on findings.
• Orders medications and writes prescriptions per policies.
• Delivers high-quality documentation, including notes and discharge summaries.
• Performs bedside procedures as appropriate.

Skills

Psychiatric assessment

Documentation

Pharmacotherapy

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing

Tools

EMR

Job description

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Job Summary

Addiction Medicine SUD Nurse Practitioner BWFH Addiction Consult Team

The envisioned schedule for this position is 9-6pm and has the ability to work 4 - 10 hour shifts. No weekends or holidays.

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a licensed provider. This NP position works explicitly in a psychiatric setting, providing psychiatric assessments and establishing comprehensive plans that address a broad range of concerns for patients with psychiatric disorders. May perform additional duties, such as precepting a small group of learners.

Essential Functions

Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to psychiatric patients.

• Complete biopsychosocial and psychopharmalogical evaluations on patients.
• Performs complete histories and physical examinations.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings.
• Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Consistently provides high-quality and timely documentation, including admission and progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes, and discharge summaries.
• Performs bedside procedures as are appropriate to the patient population.

This position provides expert clinical care to patients with substance use disorder on the hospital Addiction Consult Team. Addiction consultation in the hospital and Emergency Department setting includes providing rapid assessment, diagnostic clarification, withdrawal management, pharmacotherapy initiation, treatment planning, and linkage at discharge to ongoing addiction treatment. This position works within a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, resource specialists, and recovery coaches.

Qualifications

Education

Master's Degree Nursing required

Licenses and Credentials

Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner required

CARN-NP preferred or obtained it in the first 18 months of employment.

Experience

2 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse practitioner required .

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Solid understanding of psychiatric clinical practices.
• Skilled in conducting psychiatric assessments/evaluations.
• Ability to maintain quality control standards.
• Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations.
• Ability to interpret, adapt and apply guidelines and procedures.
• Ability to communicate clearly and establish/maintain effective working relationships with patients, medical staff and the public.

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 249- bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.

At Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital.

Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

1153 Centre Street

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range

$135720.00 - $173,867.20/Annual

Grade

7

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EEO Statement

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