Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

SMMC is seeking a skilled and compassionate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our clinic in the heart of Idaho's mountain country. This role offers autonomy, collaboration, and the chance to make a meaningful impact in a rural healthcare setting. We're proud to offer behavioral health services that blend clinical excellence with small-town heart!

Nestled in the Salmon River Valley, Steele Memorial Medical Center (SMMC) offers the best of both worlds: high-level care in a setting that feels like home. You'll enjoy breathtaking mountain views, world-class fishing, and a community that still waves hello. If you're ready to bring your full clinical expertise to a setting where adventure meets purpose, we'd love to meet you!

Salmon, Idaho where your work matters and your days off are always an adventure! Hiking, Fishing, Camping, Rafting, Golfing, No traffic! Check out all that Salmon Idaho has to offer at the link below!

Salmon, Idaho Experience

We're seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team and expand access to mental healthcare in our region. You'll work alongside licensed therapist, primary care providers, and support staff to deliver outpatient psychiatric services to patient across the lifespan.

Duties:

• Diagnose psychiatric disorders and mental health conditions. Distinguishes between physiologically and psychologically based disorders and makes appropriate diagnoses.
• Assesses patients mental and physical status based on the presenting symptoms and complaints. Conducts individual, group, and family psychotherapy for those with chronic or acute mental disorders.
• Documents patients medical and psychological histories, physical assessment results, diagnoses treatment plans, writes and manages prescriptions, and outcomes. Writes prescriptions for psychotropic medications as allowed by state regulations and collaborative practice agreements.
• Monitors patients' medication usage and results.
• Evaluates patients' behavior to formulate diagnoses or assess treatments.
• Educates patients and family members about mental health and medical conditions, preventative health measures, medications, and treatment plans.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members including psychiatrists, psychologists, and nursing staff, to develop, implement, and evaluate treatment plans.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to diagnose and treat simple and complex psychiatric and mental health problems from adjustment disorders to serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness, major depression, and anxiety disorders.
• Strong skills to manage, coordinate, and evaluate the care and education of the patient and family along the health care process.
• Ability to manage patients who need to be closely monitored.
• Trained to adhere to medications and therapies with complex protocols.
• Expertise in handling sophisticated medical equipment.
• May be required to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
• On-call duty may be required (available to work on short notice).

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing and an advanced degree from and Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing (APPN) graduate nursing program required. APPN graduate education must include the study of basic science, (i.e, pathophysiology, advanced health assessment, brain and behavioral correlates), advanced psychopharmacology and psychotherapeutic techniques: followed by clinical rotations in outpatient mental health settings, hospitals, or residential care settings.
• Certification by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in psychiatric mental health advanced practice nursing as the area of specialization required.
• Documented compliance with any state statutes and regulations governing advanced practice psychiatric mental health nursing required.