ARNP - Adult Outpatient and Residential - Full Time

Full Time

Adult Outpatient and Residential

Flexible schedule options; Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

$75 - $96.07

Comprehensive Life Resources is looking for a qualified Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Tacoma, Washington.

Please apply to either our full time or part time ARNP position; consideration will be made for both schedule options during hiring.

We Offer - Medical, Dental, and Vision with 100% paid premiums for Full-Time employees, 11 paid holidays, 403(b)-retirement plan, mileage reimbursement, Tuition Assistance, Paid Sick leave, Continuing education programs, and Health club reimbursement!!

Scope:

Provide quality, evidence-based psychiatric services to adults suffering from mental illness or co-occurring disorders. This position supports our adult residential facility, Park Place, as well as our Adult Outpatient program, both in Tacoma, WA. The ARNP will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health disorders, ensuring the highest quality of care and support for our residents and clients. Serves as a member of an organization that welcomes, engages, and serves individuals with complex wellness needs.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct psychiatric examinations and review collateral information of assigned patients in accordance with Department of Behavioral Health (DBHR) and WAC guidelines, and Best Practices.

• Prescribe psychotropic medications using Electronic Prescribing System (EPS) to treat psychiatric illness; order labs in accordance with Best Practice guidelines.

• Comply with Center's EMR requirements as established and modified from time to time.

• Conduct regular reviews (and revisions as needed) of treatment plans and provides DSM V diagnoses on all assigned patients as required by Program and state regulatory protocols.

• Incorporate, when appropriate, limited supportive psychotherapy for patients.

• Become part of a treatment team with nurses, other prescribers, case managers, support staff, clinicians’ administration and management teams.

• Evaluate urgent psychiatric patients in a competent and timely manner. Complies consistently with commitment laws. Be familiar with physician's certificates or other documentation for involuntary treatment in accordance with applicable laws and the Mental Health Code.

• Identify medical concerns that warrant referral to a primary care provider or other specialist.

• Adhere to Medicaid and third-party billing documentation requirements and credentialing.

• Engagement in active supervision by the Medical Director.

• In addition to the above, performs other duties as assigned.

Competencies:

• Demonstrates a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation to include chief complaint, psychiatric history, health history, medication history, substance use, family history for clients.
• Ensures mental status examination are completed.
• Develop and document appropriate DSM V diagnosis.
• Demonstrates the ability to assess and document risk.
• Develop plan of care.
• Ensures appropriate laboratory studies are ordered and follows up on results of all studies.
• Demonstrate effective communication both orally and in writing.
• Ensure documentation and assessments are completed in a time manner, and meeting required content.
• Demonstrates appropriate boundaries and values.
• Demonstrates professional demeanor, behavior, and communication.
• Promote whole health care as a key to people's recovery and quality of life.
• Demonstrate empathy, hopefulness, and resourcefulness in communication with others.