Travel Nurse RN - Psych - $6,256 per week in Williamsburg, VA

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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