Nurse Practitioner – Onsite + Telehealth

Safe Harbor Recovery Center; Portsmouth (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide general medical care under physician direction. The role includes history and physicals, medication management, and clinical assessments onsite with possible telehealth collaboration.

Requires MSN and RN experience with the target client population, plus experience prescribing psychotropic meds in primary care and strong crisis management skills.

Qualifications

• MSN degree from an accredited school of nursing.
• One or more years’ experience as an RN with the client population.
• Experience in prescribing basic psychotropic medications that would ordinarily be managed in a primary care setting.
• Clinical experience with limit setting, therapeutic boundaries, crisis management, environment, and client care.

Responsibilities

• Gathers, develops, and evaluates age-appropriate history and physical data for physician’s use.
• Assesses physical, psychosocial and cultural needs and plans care.
• Provides screening and medication management to clients.
• Establishes priorities in planning and organizing client care and Master Treatment Plan.
• Encourages family involvement and provides education related to medical needs.
• Diagnoses and treats acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team.
• Assists the physician with the clinical operation of the program.
• Documents data and charts clinical observations and treatments per guidelines.
• Collaborates with physicians and staff on outcome goals.
• Implements health care interventions under FNP prescriptive practice.
• Reviews medical reports released under the facility’s name.
• Provides guidance to clinical staff to ensure quality care.
• Prepares discharge summaries for physician review.
• Under collaborative practice, calls permissible medications to pharmacies.
• Provides on-call responsibilities as scheduled.
• May order, perform or interpret diagnostic tests and prescribe medications.

Skills

Nurse practitioner

Prescriptive practice

Crisis management

Therapeutic boundaries

Education

Master of Science of Nursing (MSN)

Job description

Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide general medical care under physician direction. The role includes history and physicals, medication management, and clinical assessments onsite with possible telehealth collaboration.

Requires MSN and RN experience with the target client population, plus experience prescribing psychotropic meds in primary care and strong crisis management skills.