Job Details
Advance Practice RN-Behavioral
2026-03-23 king's daughters Ashland,KY
Description:
- JOB SUMMARY
- The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMNNP) will provide outpatient psychiatric evaluation and medication management services at King's Daughters Outpatient Behavioral Medicine. The PMHNP will work in coordination with physician collaboration including conducting examinations and writing prescriptions to provide behavioral health services to adult and youth clients. This position will be supervised by a psychiatrist with whom there is a Collaborative Practice Agreement established upon hire. Services will initially be office-based, with the opportunity to grow telehealth services in the future to serve clients at remote locations. The PMHNP will work in collaboration with the clinical and office staff to coordinate client care, assist with insurance pre-authorization, and caseload management.
- DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Responsible for providing psychiatric services to clients in a variety of clinical settings during scheduled hours. Scope of services includes outpatient psychiatric evaluations and medication management services.
- Assess, diagnose, and treat adults, adolescents, and children experiencing symptoms of a behavioral health disorders.
- Prescribe, recommend, or discontinue drugs and treatments to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders in accordance with the Collaborative Practice Agreement and the state's Nurse Practice Act.
- Collaborate with counselors, social workers, or other treatment team members to coordinate client care.
- Responsible for timely and accurate completion of medical records, including assessment, treatment plan, progress notes, outcome measures, and billing entries.
- Counsel clients during appointments, as necessary.
- Design/participate in the development of individualized treatment plans, incorporating best and leading practices into treatment interventions.
- Examine or order laboratory or diagnostic tests for clients to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorders.
- Collaborate with guardians, relatives, and significant others on client's conditions and treatment when clinically appropriate.
- Prepare and submit assessments, progress notes, reports, and summaries to entities/agencies (funders, insurance companies, etc.) as required.
- Return calls and emails promptly (within 24 hours of receipt or sooner if clinically necessary)
- Respond to client emergencies
- Responsible for making independent decisions based on protocols developed utilizing national guidelines for treatment interventions.
- Responsible for maintaining customer relations with all agency staff and clients.
- Maintain medical records.
- Records all services performed for accurate billing for services provided in compliance with all local, state and federal laws, as well as payor rules and regulations.
- Submits billing documents in a timely fashion.
- Looks for ways to improve and promote quality. Provides teaching and education to clinical staff, if requested.
- Follow all procedures and protocols as per KD policy, federal and state regulations, standard practice, and in accordance with the Collaborative Practice Agreement.
- Actively participate in all agency and department education, training, and in-services to confirm understanding of new information or changes to established clinical policies and procedures
- Overall performance of below indicated essential job duties:
- EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum requirement:
- Master's or Doctorate Degree in Nursing with focus on Psychiatric nursing.
- Graduation from a state-certified advance practice program specializing in psychiatry/mental health
- Achieves and maintains a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Certification
- Maintains active APRN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and/or State of Ohio
- Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
- At least 1-2 years providing direct patient care to persons receiving treatment for psychiatric disorders
- Ability to work with both adult and youth/child populations
- Achieves and maintaintains Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Certification
- Preferred qualifications:
- One -Two years of PMHNP experience
- Minimum requirement:
- WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
- Constantly exposed toblood and/or body fluids andinfection.
- Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
- Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
- Frequently required to walk and move about.
- Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
- Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
- Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
- Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
- Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
- Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.