Advance Practice Registered Nurse

Description

This position provides quality psychiatric nursing services to agency clients and their families, in support of clients maintaining compliance with prescribed medications, learning and applying self-care tools for better health, and preventing or reducing hospitalizations.

Essential Functions

• Provides direct advance practice professional nursing services to child and adult clients, in an effort to maintain medication compliance and mental and physical health stability.
• Prescribes psychotropic medications to agency clients under the supervision of Center psychiatrist and provides medication management services as needed to monitor health stability and medication compliance.
• Communicates and coordinates necessary referrals and delivery of services among hospitals, schools, and within the department and organization to ensure that client is receiving necessary services.
• Designs and delivers effective teaching strategies and presentations in an effort to orient and teach clients and their families to assume responsibility for their daily functioning skills related to self-care and medication compliance.
• Works in partnership with clients and other vested individuals to design and implement a comprehensive and individualized plan of care based on a strengths assessment.
• Maintains accurate and complete records of all client services, as defined by state licensing agencies, funding agencies, and Mental Health Center standards and requirements. Submits daily appointment sheets, progress notes, treatment plans, timesheets, and all work-related paperwork in a timely manner and in acceptable format as determined by agency requirements.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director to establish and maintain updates to advance practice registered nurse protocols as defined in the Kansas Nurse Practice Act.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full time position.  Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. 

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

Master’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing and ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification.

Preferred Education and Experience

A minimum of one-year work experience in the psychiatric nursing field is desirable, but not required.

Licensure or Certification

Must have licensure as an advance practice registered nurse with the Kansas State Board of Nursing and hold practitioner certification with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Ability to work with persons with serious emotional disturbance and/or severe and persistent mental illness; possess demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to react effectively in a variety of human service situations; ability to work independently and as a member of a therapeutic team; possess prior computer experience in Microsoft Office programs and basic computer fluency.