Physician / Nurse Practitioner / Iowa / Permanent / NP - Nurse Practit

Company: Kurz Solutions
Location: Sioux City
Posted on: October 11, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description

NP - PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER

We are full-service provider of psychiatric services including: evaluation & testing, medication management, individual therapy, children/adolescent, couples, family, marriage, and group therapy.

DUTIES OF THE PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER:

• Obtain and accurately documents a relevant health history, with an emphasis on mental history.
• Perform comprehensive mental health assessments and psychiatric evaluations to include post-traumatic stress disorders.
• Analyze the relationship between normal physiology and specific system alterations associated with mental health problems, psychiatric disorders, and treatment.
• Identify and analyze factors that affect mental health such as genetics, family environment trauma, psychodynamics, culture & ethnicity, etc.
• Collect data from multiple sources using assessment techniques that are appropriate to the patient's language, culture and developmental stage.
• Conduct a comprehensive multigenerational family assessment.
• Assess the impact of acute and/or chronic physical illness, psychiatric disorders, and stressors on the family system.
• Perform and accurately document appropriate systems and symptom-focused physical examinations, with emphasis on the mental status exam and neurological exam.
  
  REQUIREMENTS:
  
  
  • Master's Degree in Nursing with specialty in psychiatric nursing (PMHNP desired, not required) from an accredited institution
  • Two year's experience as a psychiatric NP, or 5 years as a psychiatric RN
  • Unblemished Iowa NP license
    
    KURZSolutions is committed to improving health outcomes by providing well-managed companies with the top healthcare talent in the market.
    
    

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