Mental health nurse vs advanced practice psychiatric nurse

Differences between mental health nurse and advanced practice psychiatric nurse duties and responsibilities

Mental health nurse example responsibilities.

• Interact with patients, coordinate and successfully manage therapeutic group activities with unit staffs under supervision of clinical instructor.
• Provide psychiatric evaluation, medication management and education for patients with serious and persistent mental illness and debilitating personality disorders.
• Provide transportation, medication management, daily ADL's, housekeeping, and feeding.
• Provide hourly room checks and ADL's according to care plan implement by the attending physician.
• Initiate emergency resuscitative measures according to adult resuscitation protocols.
• Perform case management for outpatient veterans that include psychiatric treatment.
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Advanced practice psychiatric nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage staff of medical personnel providing care for telemetry, geriatric and general medicine patients.
• Formulate diagnosis and make recommendations for treatment and disposition to clinical staff.
• Oversee and provide leadership for professional staff on a medical surgical orthopedic unit with oversight of scheduling and performance management.
• Maintain JCAHO standards including policy development, infection prevention, quality management, and risk management.
• Contribute substantially to successful department JCAHO accreditation; establishing and implementing policies and procedures, protocols, and require assessments.