ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE (BHCC) at Highland Rivers Health in Marietta, Georgia

Job Description:

Under the supervision of the Medical Director, this position is responsible for providing medication evaluation and management. This position provides evaluation, assessment, crisis assessment, intervention, treatment planning, and discharge planning services for individuals having mental illness and substance abuse disorders.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide psychiatric initial evaluation, ongoing assessments, or crisis assessments.


• Provide on call physician services


• Report to sight as needed in case of emergent issues.


• Provide patient education on diagnosis, medication, monitoring response to treatment and side effects of medication, informed consent, treatment adherence, and other topics as individualized for the patient


• Provides sufficient documentation in the medical record to reflect the diagnosis, treatment goals, interventions and standards of the agency to meet requirements of state and federal funding entities.


• Documents and signs assessments, progress notes, and medication or lab orders within timeframes established by HRBH.


• Provide on call services as needed


• Signs needed orders for service prior to initiation of services.


• Reviews individual service plan of clients and signs when service plan addresses the goals and treatment interventions appropriate for the client.


• Prescribes appropriate medication and obtains baseline metabolic indices as indicated and in accordance with HRBH standards of care and all applicable professional, state and federal standards.


• Prescribes, monitors, modifies, and/or discontinues medications as indicated and documents medical necessity and these processes in the medical record of client.


• Orders medical assessments, consultations, referrals, medications and laboratory tests as indicated for patients.


• Signs orders for service within designated timeframe established by HRBH; responds to nursing and clinician inquiries.


• Participates in the Medical Staff peer review/documentation/utilization review processes and maintains agency-established targeted outcomes


• Participates, as indicated, in medical education for healthcare students in training programs in Medicine, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Pharmacy, Nursing, Medical Assisting, and other healthcare professionals as determined by organization's clinical agreements


• Respond to phone inquiries of hospitals and pharmacies


• Attend all required Agency meetings and trainings