RCA

Full Time Permanent - Onsite

Recovery Centers of America

Recovery Centers of America (RCA) is a ground-breaking addiction and mental health treatment provider, setting the standard when it comes to accessible, affordable, and effective care. RCA understands the heartache, damage, and pain substance use disorder causes a person as well as their family and friends. Not only do we believe that addiction treatment should be affordable, accessible, and evidence-based, but our driven, compassionate, and dedicated employees make those beliefs a reality! This is where you come in.

Summary

Recovery Centers of America (RCA) is a ground-breaking addiction and mental health treatment provider, setting the standard when it comes to accessible, affordable, and effective care. RCA understands the heartache, damage, and pain substance use disorder causes a person as well as their family and friends. Not only do we believe that addiction treatment should be affordable, accessible, and evidence-based, but our driven, compassionate, and dedicated employees make those beliefs a reality! This is where you come in.

As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you’ll be a part of RCA’s impactful mission of helping millions of people jumpstart their recovery. Your expertise as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will aid in patient recovery, as you support and implement effective techniques that will make a real difference in the lives of patients, their families, and communities. 

Responsibilities

• Assess, examine, diagnose and treat patients with mental illness by conducting a comprehensive family assessment
• Collect data from multiple sources using assessment techniques that are appropriate to the patient’s language, culture, and developmental state, including screening evaluations, psychiatric rating scales, genograms and other standardized instruments
• Assess the impact of acute and/or chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, and stressors on the family system
• Teach patients’ families about the patient’s condition, and how to react in certain scenarios
• Develop a plan of care and may prescribe medication

Qualifications

• Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Education & Experience

• Master’s, Postgraduate, or Doctoral degree from a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), formerly NLNAC (National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission)
• 2+ years’ experience as an RN; 3 years’ experience as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
• Valid RN license in the state in which the individual will practice

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