Job Description:

ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSE- Psychiatry

Short Description

Clinical Psychiatry APN - Job Description

* APN Day to Day assignments:
o Evaluate and treat non-teaching consult patients on med/surg floors and in ED - patients assigned in collaboration with psychiatry consultation-liaison (CL) team and CL attending
o Ongoing follow ups for non-teaching CL service patients
o Review patient list briefly on CL team table rounds once each morning and once each afternoon
o Supervise APN students when assigned by APN psychiatry department lead
o Serve as lead liaison from the psychiatry CL team to Advance Practice Providers (APPs) at Cooper in working with psychiatry patients in med/surg and ED settings (e.g., attending interdisciplinary case conferences; multi-disciplinary team and family meetings; meeting individually with APP providers regarding shared patients)
o Collaborate and partner with CL attending in providing capacity building and education for non-psychiatry providers in working with psychiatry patients in med/surg and ED settings (e.g., developing trainings for non-psychiatry providers in verbal de-escalation of patients and other topics in managing psychiatric patients)

* Continuing Education

o Continuing education to include attending didactic sessions- Table Rounds with the CL/ED team each day and join didactic sessions for the CL/ED team

Scheduled Days / Hours: 8am-5pm M to F;

License (or Certification):BLS Required;

License (or Certification):NJ-APN Required;

License (or Certification):NJ-RN Required;

Education:MASTERS Required

Certification; ANCC required