Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Crisis Stabilization)

Highland Rivers Health; Cedartown (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Flexible Benefits

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Personal Day

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

NHSC loan forgiveness

Clinical supervision

Job summary

Highland Rivers Behavioral Health in Georgia operates a 24/7 Crisis Stabilization Unit providing assessments and management of behavioral health and substance use disorders. The Physician or Nurse Practitioner will perform diagnostic evaluations and medication management for individuals in crisis.

The role requires licensure to practice in Georgia and involves developing comprehensive treatment plans, coordinating care, and handling psychiatric emergencies with a patient-centered approach.

Qualifications

• Physician (MD/DO) or Nurse Practitioner licensed in GA.
• MD/DO or NP credentials required to practice in Georgia.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive physical and mental health assessments and document health history.
• Identify factors affecting mental health and relation to physiology and psychiatric disorders.
• Lead therapeutic interviews to facilitate a trusting clinical relationship.
• Order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests.
• Develop biopsychosocial treatment plans based on evidence-based care.
• Prescribe medications and educate patients on their use and potential adverse effects.
• Manage psychiatric emergencies by assessing risk and coordinating care.
• Complete and maintain required legal forms for individuals on the unit.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Education

MD/DO or NP credentials

Job description

There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health!

Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.

Are you ready to make a Difference?

Job Summary:

The Physician or Nurse Practitioner will be working in a Crisis Stabilization Unit that provides 24/7 services with individuals with behavioral health and substance use problems. The Physician or Nurse Practitioner will provide direct service to individuals, such as diagnostic assessments, and evaluation and management of medications.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform comprehensive physical and mental health assessment in order to obtain and accurately document relevant health history.
• Identify and analyze factors that affect mental health, and the relationship between normal physiology and specific system alterations associated with mental health problems, psychiatric disorders, and treatment.
• Involve the individual serve in collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, using assessment techniques that are appropriate for the individual served.
• Demonstrate effective clinical interviewing skills that facilitate the development of a therapeutic relationship.
• Order and interpret findings of relevant diagnostic and laboratory testing.
• Identify typical and atypical presentations of medical conditions from psychiatric disorders, and apply standardized taxonomy systems to the diagnosis of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
• Develop a treatment plan for mental health problems, substance use and psychiatric disorders based on biopsychosocial theories, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.
• Prescribe medications based on clinical indicators of an individual's status, including results of diagnostic and lab testing as appropriate, and educate individual in the appropriate use of medications, intended effects and potential adverse effects of treatment options.
• Manage psychiatric emergencies by determining the level of risk, and initiating and coordinating effective emergency care.
• Apply therapeutic communication strategies based on theories and research evidence.
• Completes and maintains all legal forms for individuals on the unit.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance through the State Health Benefit Plan of GA
• Flexible Benefits such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, etc.
• Retirement Plan with employer matching
• 4 weeks of Paid Time Off with increase of accruals based on years of service
• 10 paid holidays
• 1 personal day
• Qualifying employer for Public Student Loan Forgiveness
• NHSC loan forgiveness in qualifying counties.
• Clinical supervision for candidates on a licensure track.