Travel Nurse RN - Psych in Williamsburg, VA

Company: talent4health
Location: Williamsburg
Posted on: September 28, 2024

Job Description:

Issue Date - 09/18/2024 Eastern State Hospital is seeking BC/BE Psychiatric MD/DO to assist with locum tenens coverage. Experience working with an acute and chronic adult inpatient population is required, and forensic population, preferred. Details for the assignment are provided below: Assignment: --- Available to start October 10, 2024 (pending credentialing) --- Initial Appointment for 3-month (90 day) consecutive assignment, PREFERRED, with option to extend 3 -6-month assignment, if the position remains unfilled --- Full-time, 40 hours a week with assigned office hours of Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm with 1 hour lunch break, no alternative schedules accepted --- NOT approved for overtime --- No weekends, no holidays, no on-call duty --- Ability to provide cross coverage, to include forensic populations, as required --- Once a month, participation in Lunch Coverage Call (12:00 PM --- 1:00 PM) Qualifications: --- 3 more years as a Physician/Practitioner --- Strong experience working with patients having Serious Mental Illness (SMI) --- Psychiatric Crisis Management and Forensic experience, a plus --- Experience working with adult admissions or geriatric admissions and acute and chronic health management of adult and geriatric populations. --- Comfortable working on admissions work up and potential rapid turnover --- Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team --- BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required Position Details: --- Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male & female) --- Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations --- Facility Stay: Short and Long-term length of stay o Caseload varies by ward and assignment (40-45) --- Psychiatry coverage is provided --- Full complement of interdisciplinary team members Responsibilities include but are not limited to: --- Responsible for patient care that includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of medical illnesses for adult and geriatric psychiatric inpatient population. --- Serves as medical consultant to the attending psychiatrist/practitioner. --- Completes admission medical assessments (including history and physical examinations, mental status examination) and entering admission orders. --- Orders diagnostic/therapeutic tests and procedures. --- Monitors patients--- progress, including laboratory values and special procedures with appropriate follow-up or referrals as needed. --- Consults with authorized representatives/legal guardians on patient medical status. --- Collaborates with attending psychiatric practitioner if needed providing DSM-5 Diagnoses that are valid, complete, and supported by timely and appropriate assessment. --- Provides coverage to the medical clinic, the admission suit to ensure the admission process is completed. --- Prescribes medications at the lowest effective dose in accordance with rational clinical practices. Assesses and address medication side-effects and report adverse drug reactions. --- Ensures timely and quality documentation (admissions, follow-up and annual, etc.) in patient records in accordance with policies, procedures, regulatory standards, and guidelines.

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