Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
Location: Boston Massachusetts
Description: is hiring Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist right now, this career will be placed in Massachusetts. For detail informations about this career opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. The Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist will have the following primary duties:
- Provides comprehensive, high quality primary, episodic psychiatric care, including individual and group therapy if indicated, at various clinical sites staffed by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program.
- May work at shelter based clinic, hospital based clinic, respite facility or on street outreach, but will usually be based at more than one site.
- Elicit an appropriate history, do a thorough diagnostic evaluation, order blood work, interpret results and initiate therapy.
- Refer patients as appropriate to primary care, hospital admission, recuperative care and detox facilities, providing appropriate information for continuity of care.
- Track patients through follow-up visits and labs.
- Participate in collaborative relationship with BHCHP Associate Medical Director of Psychiatry according to the Regulations of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Provide on-call coverage with BHCHP psychiatrists to ensure 24 hour availability at the respite facilities.
- Provide education to patients and staff regarding medication management and behavior management techniques.
- Work as part of multi-disciplinary team in caring for patients.
- Maintain adequate, up-to-date medical records, completed in a timely manner, according to the guidelines of BHCHP, employing standard forms such as problem lists, medication lists, etc.
- Maintain active DPH, DEA, and professional license, hospital privileges, managed care credentialing and CPR training
Education, training, experience:
- Licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as RNCS.
- Registered or eligible to be registered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency
- Bilingual preferred
- Experience in working with underserved populations, mentally ill, homeless and/or persons with substance abuse problems preferred.
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This career starts available on: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:38:00 GMT