Nurse Practitioner in Charge FT Middleboro
McLean Hospital(MCL)

Job Info

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Provides and oversees day-to-day clinical services of the inpatient team on and inpatient unit

• Leads the multidisciplinary clinical team
• Provides clinical services to a team of up to 7 assigned patients every business day
• Documents each clinical visit in the medical record on the day of service, completes treatment plans, and completes discharge summaries.
• Participates in team rounds and other clinical meetings, and helps coordinate all treatment and discharge planning
• Oversees appropriate medical care
• Meets with families for clinical discussions as needed
• Communicates with referring sources, primary care physicians, and other community providers
• Attends program and hospital administrative meetings
• Complies with all hospital clinical and administrative policies
• Participates in utilization management, risk management, and quality assurance activities
• Participates in appropriate standing hospital committees
• Provides supervision of medical trainees, nursing trainees, and others as appropriate
• Facilitates integration of program services with other clinical programs and non-clinical departments in conjunction with other program leadership
• Facilitates the integration of clinical services with research
• Will attend supervision by supervising psychiatrist/MD

Qualifications

• Education; Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited National League of Nursing graduate school
• Experience; Two years of clinical experience as APRN in the treatment of behavioral health settings preferred
• License; A current, active, unrestricted licensure as a Massachusetts NP with prescriptive authority
• Board certification in psychiatric/mental health nursing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• All employees must possess basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical and administrative purposes
• Required to complete electronic medical records training and demonstrate 80% accuracy on competency test within 30 days of hire

EEO Statement
It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or a condition related to pregnancy including, but not limited to, lactation or the need to express breast milk for a nursing child, or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation.

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