Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Vs Therapist

Differences between psychiatric nurse practitioner and therapist duties and responsibilities

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Example Responsibilities.

• Lead quality assessment of client's QA / QC processes, organizations, and test environments.
• Manage outpatient pacemaker and ICD interrogations and remote transmission follow-ups.
• Manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes and provide prescriptions and education before discharge from the hospital.
• Obtain necessary certifications, including child abuse clearance, CPR, and nonviolent crisis intervention training.
• Perform rapid triage, psychiatric nursing assessment and medication administration.
• Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition and mental disorder.
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Therapist Example Responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator and BiPAP's and create or update care plans per patient needs.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention as well as standard treatment, rehabilitation and support services with some interventions requiring specialize therapy services.
• Develop and implement an effective curriculum of DBT inform group and art therapy classes specifically tailor for chemically dependent patients.
• Provide trauma-inform individual psychotherapy, TREM group treatment protocol, and EMDR.
• Utilize current brain base therapeutic techniques to teach clients adaptive skills to utilize in daily lives.
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