Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Dignity Health Medical Group - Arizona is seeking a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Phoenix, AZ.

Dignity Health Medical Group works in partnership with St. Joseph Hospital Medical Center ('SJHMC'), the oldest ACS-verified Level I trauma center in central Phoenix. Our team’s focus is driven around being leaders in education, centered on evidenced based medicine while ensuring consistent collaboration and communications within the team.

• In collaboration with the physician/medical director assumes clinical responsibility for tasks performed within Nurse Practitioner's scope of practice
• Including: taking patient s history performing physical examinations ordering appropriate diagnostic tests establishing diagnosis and provide care and management for common illnesses and disease prevention in the adult patient
• The NP may assist in the admission transfer or discharge from Health Care System
• Makes appropriate referrals to specialists and community agencies
• Participates in quality assurance and quality improvement program
• Works within multidisciplinary team to develop plan for the patient and their family
• Also responsible for the management of the standards of care quality national certifications and representation to key stakeholders for the specialty program

• Three years clinical experience in area of specialty preferred
• Master's in nursing
• Graduate of accredited program for nurse practitioners.
• AZ RN license or RN License from a Compact State
• PMHNP (Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner)
• Registered in AZ as nurse practitioner. Hold and maintain national certification in NP area, under AZ regulations.
• American Heart Association BCLS and ACLS

With over 300 physicians and 1000 total employees, Dignity Health Medical Group – Arizona is a comprehensive, integrated, multispecialty, academic medical group that serves Dignity Health St. Joseph’s and Westgate Medical Centers, Chandler Regional Medical Center, and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center. The physicians of DHMG – AZ are regularly involved with clinical duties, as well as academics and translational bench research, keeping the enhancement of care and the patient experience at the forefront of the work that they do.

ABOUT THE CULTURE OF DIGNITY HEALTH:

Dignity Health, as part of Common Spirit Health—the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in the nation. The mission of Dignity Health Medical Group is consistent with Dignity Health's mission and guiding principles with a focus on innovative clinical care and the pursuit of excellence through scholarly activities. As part of the Dignity Health hospital system, DHMG has full access to the staff and all facilities on our hospital campuses.

This unique relationship with our hospital allows Dignity Health Medical Group to provide its patients with state-of-the-art patient services including care of the poor and disenfranchised.