About this opportunity
Priority Dispatch Corp. lists this Physician Assistant opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Job Description: Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant/ Psychiatrist
The ideal candidate has a holistic background and prescribes medication conservatively.
Training in alternative medicine and techniques preferred.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Helps clients by evaluating medical and psychosocial conditions
Develops and implements treatment plans, including prescription of psychotropic medications
Monitors and evaluates treatment results
Evaluates clients by interviewing patient, family, and other persons; conducting history and physical examinations; observing behaviors; reviewing medical history and related documents; selecting, administering, and interpreting psychological tests
Develops treatment plans by determining nature and extent of cognitive, emotional, developmental, social, and behavioral disorders and establishing treatment goals and methodologies
Treats clients by utilizing psychotherapeutic methods and medications; discussing progress toward goals with clients; providing instructions; monitoring effect of medications; and supervising staff provision of services
Maintains interdisciplinary treatment by reviewing treatment plans and progress, and consulting and collaborating with primary care physicians, mental health therapists, nurses, and other health care providers
Assures quality and safe service for patients and staff by enforcing policies, procedures, standards, rules, Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requirements, H.H.S.C., and legal regulations; participating in utilization reviews; and remaining available for emergency consultations
Improves staff competence by providing training and discussions regarding the interrelationship between psychosocial and physiological problems, psychotropic medications, crisis intervention, and related issues
Maintains historical records by documenting symptoms, medications, and treatment events and writing summaries
Updates job knowledge by participating in continuing medical educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations
Qualifications
Decision-making
Verbal communication
Patient services
Building relationships
Discretion
Bedside manner
Minimum Qualifications:
Completion of a psychiatric residency or a family medicine/psychiatry residency in an ACGME approved residency program
Current BC/BE in Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in psychiatry)
Valid state medical license as MD, DO, NP or PA
2 years’ experience working full-time with child/adult psychiatry
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