Nurse Practitioner - Family Behavioral Medicine

Overview

UCHealth Mountain Crest Behavioral Health Center invites a PRN Family Nurse Practitioner who demonstrates empathy, talent, drive, and a "patients first" mentality to join an excellent opportunity.

• Contribute to the multidisciplinary inpatient psychiatric team by providing care for patients with identified medical needs.
• Complete admission history and physicals for all inpatient psychiatric patients ages 13 and older.
• Manage ongoing acute and chronic medical needs, including transfer to a higher level of care if needed.
• Work 24/7, including weekends and holidays, covering hours between 8AM - 8PM.
• Communicate effectively, working autonomously or on diverse teams with excellent written and verbal communication.
• Maintain full prescriptive authority or work toward full prescriptive authority for consideration.

• Master's degree in Nursing and graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Certification from ANCC, AANPCB, AACN, or equivalent; must be maintained throughout employment.
• Unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in Colorado or compact privileges under the multi‑state Nurse Licensure Compact.
• Unrestricted medical staff membership with appropriate practice privileges.
• Unrestricted DEA permit to prescribe all commonly prescribed medications.
• Eligible to provide reimbursable services, maintain provider status with Medicare and Medicaid, and free of sanctions from HHS/OIG or GSA.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
• Provisional prescriptive authority working toward full prescriptive authority or full prescriptive authority.

• Master's Degree in Physician Assistant Studies.
• Unrestricted license to practice as a Physician Assistant in Colorado.
• Physician Assistant Certification (PA‑C) maintained throughout employment.
• Unrestricted DEA permit to prescribe all commonly prescribed medications.
• Eligible to provide reimbursable services, maintain provider status with Medicare and Medicaid, and free of sanctions from HHS/OIG or GSA.
• Unrestricted medical staff membership with appropriate practice privileges.
• Prescriptive authority and BLS/ACLS certification.