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Position Function:

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner provides primary mental health care at the Behavioral Health Clinic by serving two integrated roles on the clinic's SAMHSA Targeted Capacity Expansion award: Project Coordinator responsible for day-to-day program management, and prescriber providing the clinic's first medication services, offering medication for substance use and co-occurring disorders alongside therapy for college-aged Mississippians (18 to 24) statewide, in person in Starkville and by telehealth.
The incumbent works under the supervision of the Director of Behavioral Health Clinic.

Salary Grade:  17

Please see Staff Compensation Structure for salary ranges. 

Department Profile:

The Department of Psychology is within the College of Arts & Sciences. It houses 25 full-time faculty members, over 800 undergraduates, and about 45 doctoral students in our Cognitive Science and Clinical Psychology Ph.D. programs.

Area of Specialization:

Psychiatric-mental health nursing; substance use disorder treatment experience preferred

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The following examples are intended as illustrations only of the various types of duties assigned in positions allocated to this classification. The absence of specific statements of duties does not exclude those tasks from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment of the position.
1. Provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management, including medications for opioid and alcohol use disorder and tobacco/vaping cessation pharmacotherapy, paired with the clinic's psychosocial treatment model.
2. Provides patient assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plans in accordance with statutes,
regulations and protocols regulating the profession.
3. Coordinate day-to-day program operations, screening events, data entry, and federal reporting.
4. Establish and maintain the collaborating-physician arrangement and prescribing protocols.
5. Participate in outreach to campuses statewide.
6. Exercises judgment regarding patient care while using well-defined protocols.
7. Provides a wide range of nursing activities in episodic care and health promotion including health counseling and teaching.
8. Elicits and record pertinent information regarding patients' health history and seek to find the level of knowledge they have concerning their health problems.
9. After examining the findings, assist the medical and nursing management of episodic health care using established protocols.
10. Provides psychiatric health services, education, and emotional support.
11. Refers patients for inpatient care, through collaboration with the psychiatrist.
12. Orders laboratory tests, interprets, and explains test results to patients.
13. Provides patient education regarding medications, risk, benefits, and reasonable outcome expectations.
14. Communicates with patients and engages in follow-up as necessary.
15. Performs related duties as assigned.
Supervises others with full supervisory responsibility

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Psychiatric healthcare
Minimum of 2 years in clinical work environment.

1. Registered Nurse (RN) degree and advanced training as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (MSN).
2. PMHNP-BC board certification; licensed (or license-eligible) with prescriptive authority in Mississippi.
3. Certification and licensing by the Mississippi State Board of Nursing as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.
4. DEA registration (or eligibility) including MATE Act training attestation

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Five (5) years’ experience in an outpatient clinical setting.
2. Experience treating substance use and co-occurring disorders in young adults.
3. Telehealth experience
4. Candidates with lived recovery experience are welcomed, consistent with the funded application

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

1. Considerable knowledge of interviewing and history-taking.
2. Ability to run a coordinated care program (scheduling, data, reporting) alongside a clinical caseload.
3. Ability to use a cloud-based electronic medical record and e-prescribing (EPCS).
4. Comfort practicing within a collaborative practice agreement
5. Ability to perform patient assessments and interpret laboratory findings.
6. Level of maturity required with congeniality that enables the use of nursing skills to assess the patient.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

Work performed in office and through telehealth (MSU Behavioral Health clinic, Starkville)

Instructions for Applying:

All applicants must apply online at https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/jobs and attach a resume/curriculum vitae and cover letter.

Restricted Clause:

Position is contingent upon continued availability of funding.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Mississippi State University is an equal opportunity institution. Discrimination is prohibited in university employment, programs or activities based on race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, or any other status to the extent protected by applicable law. Questions about equal opportunity programs or compliance should be directed to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance, 231 Famous Maroon Band Street, P.O. 6044, Mississippi State, MS 39762, (662) 325-5839.

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