Adult Nurse Practitioner- North Carolina

Job description

Position: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (In-Person Only)
Setting: Correctional Psychiatric Unit (24-bed, in-cell unit)
Schedule: Full-Time | Monday–Friday | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Weekends/Call: None
Telehealth: Not Applicable

Responsibilities:

Conduct psychiatric admissions and medication management

No prescribing of controlled substances

Follow a strict correctional formulary for all prescriptions

Manage a daily caseload of 10–12 patients

Treat severe psychiatric cases including suicidality, psychosis, self-harm, and substance abuse

Provide short-term stabilization before patient transition

Requirements:

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners only (PMHNP-BC preferred)

Experience with high-acuity psychiatric populations strongly preferred

• Corrections
• 3 months
• suicidality, psychosis, self-harm, and substance abuse; patients transition once stabilized.