Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-FTCN in St. Louis, Missouri at State of Missouri

PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER

This position will be located at our North Campus, 5351 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112. The facility is a 100-bed forensic inpatient state psychiatric hospital with 4 units (25 beds per unit). The average length of stay for our patients is between 6-9 months. We focus on competency restoration for patients who have been found incompetent to stand trial. These patients may have a major mental illness, a brain injury, an intellectual disability, or a medical illness that causes them to be unable to assist in the legal proceedings against them.

Your responsibilities would include, but are not limited to:

u Collaborate with the unit psychiatrist to diagnose and prescribe psychiatric medication for 25 patients.

u Develop and implement psychiatric treatment plans and monitor for effectiveness.

u Work together with an interdisciplinary team including internal medical providers, social workers, psychologists, dieticians, pharmacists, and rehabilitation specialists to restore patients to competency.

Minimum qualifications: A board-certified PMHNP or DNP required. Applicants with 1+ years’ experience working as a licensed provider strongly preferred.

Preferred skills: The ideal candidate will have experience providing psychiatric care to a forensic population.