Nurse Practitioner - Behavioral Health Job at HealthDrive
Overview:
HealthDrive offers:
Essential Functions:
HealthDrive is currently seeking a
Nurse Practitioner (NP/APRN) to work
Part-Time at nursing facilities across the
Central Massachusetts area (West Brookfield, MA).
HealthDrive offers:
- Flexible schedules with no evening or weekend hours.
- Excellent pay
- Full clinical autonomy
- Established patient base
- 100% malpractice coverage
- Comprehensive administrative support team
- Permanent position (no contracts)
HealthDrive delivers on-site behavioral health, primary care, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, and audiology services to residents in long-term care, skilled nursing, and assisted living facilities. Each specialty offered by HealthDrive is one that directly impacts the quality of daily life for the deserving residents we serve. HealthDrive connects patients in need of vital healthcare to doctors committed to dignity and excellence.
The Nurse Practitioner will provide psychiatric med-management services to the residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and long-term care facilities within an assigned territory.
Essential Functions:
- Monitor psychiatric medications for effectiveness, response of resident, and side effects
- Inform residents of potential side effects of psychiatric medications
- Recommend the initiation of any psychiatric medication deemed appropriate
- Complete AIMS testing every three months on residents receiving antipsychotic medication
- Monitor tapering of psychiatric medications according to federal regulations
- Recommend behavioral interventions to nursing staff
- Develop behavior plans as needed
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Mobile model treatment of patients requires daily travel to skilled nursing facilities
- Master’s Degree from an accredited college/university
- State Professional Nurse Practitioner license
- Board Certification required
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to work independently on a daily basis
- Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Ability to use email, the internet, and to learn other healthcare related software
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