Full-Time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner- (APMHP OR PMHNP Certified) in our Oceana Branch Health Clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia area, Serving Military AND Government populations. 40 /hrs work week M-F between hours of 7:30 am-4:00 pm.

• Obtain and accurately documents a relevant health history, with an emphasis on mental history.
• Perform comprehensive mental health assessments and psychiatric evaluations.
• Analyze the relationship between normal physiology and specific system alterations associated with mental health problems, psychiatric disorders, and treatment.
• Identify and analyzes 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.
• Performs and accurately documents appropriate systems and symptom-focused physical examinations, with emphasis on the mental status exam and neurological exam.
• Develop a treatment plan for mental health problems and psychiatric disorders based on bio-psychosocial theories, evidence-based standards of care, and practice guidelines.
• Conduct individual, group, and/or family psychotherapy.
• Treat acute psychiatric disorders and mental health problems.
• Diagnose and treat patients with common acute conditions, illnesses or minor trauma within legally accepted protocols, Nurse Practice Acts, in collaboration with a physician

• Possess a Master’s, Post-Master’s or Doctorate degree from an advanced practice nursing program accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Possess a current unrestricted license to practice as a registered nurse in one (1) of the fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Possess and maintain current certification as an Adult or Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
• A minimum of one (1) year of Post Certification full-time working experience as a Adult or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Nurse Practitioner (FPMHP)
• Have successfully completed thirty (30) hours of education in pharmacology for advance nursing practice.
• Have the ability and training to prescribe to and manage patients on psychiatric medications.

SCHEDULE: 40 Work week M-F between hours of 7:30 am-4:00 pm