Comprehensive Rehab Consultants (CRC) has partnered with skilled nursing facilities to provide nursing homes and their patients with comprehensive, hospital-level specialty care focused on rehabilitating the body and mind. Our Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that may include psychiatrists, physiatrists (PM & R), therapy teams, and nursing home/assisted living staff members.

Our team of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations and medication management to the residents of our long-term communities. Our practitioners provide these services using an interdisciplinary, collaborative team approach to ensure the combination of therapy techniques and medication are used for the best patient outcomes.

Beyond a great team environment, staff at CRC enjoy the following benefits:

• Partnership with a leader in gero-psychiatry services
• Competitive pay package
• Flexible schedules/ Work-life balance
• CME Allowance
• Scribe Service
• Paid Time Off
• Strong internal clinical support
• …And more!

Responsibilities

We are hiring a full-time Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in Charlotte, NC area to work with patients with the goal of reducing polypharmacy when appropriate, managing psychiatric medications, and implementing Medicare compliant gradual dose reduction strategies for psychotropic medications.

Our PMHNPs provide direct patient care; stabilize patients, minimize complications, provide physical and psychological support, facilitate restoration of maximal health potential, and evaluate health risk factors. They perform diagnostic assessments, acquire health histories, perform examinations, prescribe and manage psychiatric medications, integrate psychotherapy when appropriate, and manage patients in a nursing facility or assisted living environment.

Specific duties include: '

• Appropriately documenting medical interventions, including initial patient history, physical examination, review of current medications, labs and other relevant information from the patient's medical chart, clinical progress and interventions, and collaboration with other applicable healthcare providers.
• Obtain and accurately document all relevant health history, with an emphasis on mental health history.
• Perform comprehensive mental health assessment and psychiatric evaluation, to include: mental status, current/past history of violence, suicidal or self-harm behavior, substance use, trauma, sexual behaviors, and social/developmental history.

If you have the experience, compassion, and drive to work in this rewarding field, we would love to speak to you about how you can make a difference in the lives of older adults in your community!

Qualifications

This position requires a DEA and license as a APRN in NC.