Nurse practitioner vs psychiatrist

Differences between nurse practitioner and psychiatrist duties and responsibilities

Nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage care of chronic pediatric patients in PICU.
• Assess, diagnose and medically manage patients with various GI diseases and dysfunctions
• Manage medical illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, thyroid conditions and asthma and other medical conditions.
• Manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes and provide prescriptions and education before discharge from the hospital.
• Manage appropriate changes to individualize care plan to ensure cost and time efficacy in an outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation office.
• Document correctly the patients' information in electronic health record and observe HIPAA.
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Psychiatrist example responsibilities.

• Provide psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis and treatment, including prescribing and administering psychotropic medications, conduct individual and group psychotherapy.
• Case load includes children, adolescents and adults.
• Provide accurate, timely and complete documentation in the EMR.
• Conduct full neurological evaluation, including lab, MRI & /or EEG.
• Work closely with Medicaid in areas of compliance needs and information of the clients.
• Create multidisciplinary team (psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse, marriage family therapist) to spear head new veterans parenting class.
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