Psychiatrist - Flexible Schedule Part Time (Physician )

Company: Northeast Healthcare Recruitment, Inc.
Location: Reno
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Psychiatric-Mental Health opening in Reno, Nevada. Diagnose mental illness and provide treatment for mental and behavioral issues. Duties include performing mental health assessments, discussing symptoms with patients to determine a diagnosis and prescribing medication to correct chemical imbalances in the patients brain. Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Examines patient, takes medical history, records results, and makes preliminary diagnosis of emotional, mental, and behavioral disorders.
• Use a variety of methods to evaluate a patient, such as interviewing the patient, their family or clinical staff members.
• Develop a treatment plan according to the patients needs and extent of emotional, social, cognitive, developmental, or behavioral disorder.
• Treat a patient using psychotherapeutic methods and medication, monitoring the effects of any medication, and adjusting treatment where necessary.
• Evaluates patients who receive psychotropic medications for behavioral interventions and gradual dose reductions to discontinue these medications.
• Evaluates patients for history of trauma and assist with the development of a plan to provide culturally competent, trauma-informed care in accordance with professional standards of practice and accounting for the patients experiences and preferences to eliminate or mitigate triggers that may cause re-traumatization.
• Administers and orders diagnostic tests such as x-rays, electrocardiograms, and blood work, and interprets test results.
• Consult with the patients primary care physician, nurses or other health care providers.
• Exercises professional judgment regarding consultation with supervising physicians concerning
• appropriate treatment.
• Prescribes psychotropic medications to the extent allowable by state guidelines and federal
• regulations.
• Provides crisis intervention when needed. Education :
  • Degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.)
    • operating and maintenance instructions, and policy/procedure manuals. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. salaries start at $250,000 per year for full time
      

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