Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner Jefferson New Jersey

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Job Description

The advanced practice clinician (APC) Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration with and is an integral member of a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides comprehensive care in the Behavioral Health ambulatory practice setting including office based outpatient partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient levels of care.

Assessment & Management

• Performs complete psychiatric evaluations including documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• The APP may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes orders and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
• Assesses for risks and contributing factors associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medical comorbidities medication side effects and psychosocial determinants.

Diagnosis

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering interpretation performance and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions

Formulates Plan of Care

• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Implements and modifies plan of care.
• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
• May perform advanced procedures and psychotherapeutic techniques consistent with privileges training and competency validation.

Documentation

• Documents/dictates key components of patients progress via daily progress note transfer and discharge summary and or clinic note where applicable.
• Documentation is timely meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team and supervising/collaborating physician.
• Facilitates and communicates with patient family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including working relationships with department staff care team and preceptor/mentoring of students where applicable
• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research the analysis of evidenced based practice and engagement with Jefferson Health enterprise meetings
• Participates in specialty specific meetings as scheduled

Maintains CEUs licensure certifications and trainings as dictated by professional

Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• National Board Certification as a Psychiatric - Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
• (CAQ-Psych Preferred) or with experience

Salary Range

The actual hiring rate will be determined based on candidate experience skills and qualifications. This position is not eligible for an annual incentive.

Positions posted as annual salaries reflect an estimated amount for a 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) (i.e. 40 hour equivalent)) positions for less than 1.0 FTE will be prorated.)

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Primary Location Address

Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.