Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (Housecall/Telemedicine) - FIND HealthCareers
Phoenix, AZ
About the Job
find healthcareers is a globalized, AI powered staffing company that supports our clients, growing US healthcare organizations, to see and take care of their patients more efficiently, regularly and with exceptional quality.
Our team is continuously hiring highly skilled healthcare workers, from Licensed Practical Nurses to Medical Doctors and provide our candidates with opportunities through direct placement, temp-to-hire and contract work. We closely work with nursing and medical assistance schools to give our clients and candidates access to a vast network of job and candidate opportunities.
About the Client
The client is an innovative US-based physicians network that has been delivering high-quality healthcare to elderly patients in assisted and independent living communities, group homes, and private homes for more than five years.
Our client has 50+ full-time healthcare clinicians (board-certified physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, podiatrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and wound-care specialists) who visit patients in the comfort of their own homes. They are also rapidly expanding the house-call network model with the patent-pending telemedicine platform via 4G/5G smartphones and tablets.
To continue the high-level patient care focused on assisted/senior living and skilled nursing facilities we are now looking for a part-time (minimum 2 days/week)
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for telemedicine and housecalls
please note, that housecalls will include limited travelling as most facilities have multiple patients that need to be seen. Therefore, the number of patient visits for each week can be reached in a clustered and very efficient way.
Essential Functions
- Conduct live and interactive clinical assessments of patients, provide treatment protocols, prescribe or recommending behavioural medications and provide medication management in long-term care facilities
- Work closely with our collaborating psychiatrists where required by state law or independently but within an interdisciplinary team including other nurse practitioners, psychologists, clinical pharmacists and physicians
- Complete patient notes in our Electronic Health Records system
- Virtually provide in-service education at facilities; participate in staff meetings as needed
- Provide consultation to facility staff on nursing practice and psychopharmacology including writing orders for medications, as appropriate
- Participate in case reviews, consultations and utilization review
- Respond to urgent calls from the facility and facilitate problem-solving
Qualifications:
- Advanced practice nursing degree from an accredited university
- Valid NP license for Arizona or in the process of obtaining it (may be asked to obtain multi-state licensure)
- State-controlled substance license or in the process of obtaining it; DEA certificate or in the process of obtaining it
- Hold a collaborative agreement or attestation with physician in accordance with the regulations of the state in which you practice
- Able to meet the credentialing requirements of clients and your assigned facilities
- Able to become credentialed with Medicare and Medicaid, and other payers as necessary
- Geriatric and/or psychiatric experience preferred
Good to know:
- The client offers a very flexible work environment and a strong back office team that structures patient visits efficiently
- The structure is pay-per-visit, offering a straightforward and transparent performance based structure. See more patients = get paid more.