NYU Langone Health

Key Responsibilities

• • Perform comprehensive psychiatric emergency evaluations for patients presenting with acute psychiatric, behavioral, and substance use emergencies.
• • Assess suicide risk, violence risk, capacity, and determine the need for involuntary evaluation, observation, or hospitalization in accordance with New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• • Develop differential diagnoses and formulate evidence-based treatment and disposition plans.
• • Initiate and manage psychopharmacologic treatment, including medication reconciliation and bridge prescribing when appropriate.
• • Provide crisis intervention, stabilization, brief psychotherapy, and behavioral management.
• • Collaborate closely with Emergency Department physicians, nursing staff, social workers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, security personnel, and consulting medical and surgical services.
• • Coordinate safe patient dispositions, including inpatient psychiatric admission, extended observation, outpatient referral, substance use treatment, ACT teams, mobile crisis services, and other community-based behavioral health programs.
• • Communicate effectively with patients, families, outpatient providers etc. to facilitate continuity of care.
• • Supervise and teach psychiatry residents, fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners, and other learners as assigned.
• • Participate in departmental quality improvement, patient safety, and educational initiatives.
• • Evaluate voluntary and involuntary psychiatric patients presenting to the CPEP.
• • Psychiatric evaluations for patients presenting to the CPEP or for Emergency Department patients requiring psychiatric evaluation.
• • Manage psychiatric emergencies, including agitation, psychosis, mania, severe depression, suicidality, intoxication, withdrawal, and behavioral disturbances using evidence-based de-escalation techniques and pharmacologic interventions.
• • Determine the appropriate level of psychiatric care, including discharge with outpatient follow-up, extended observation, inpatient psychiatric admission, medical admission with psychiatric consultation, or transfer to another psychiatric facility when appropriate.
• • Complete all required legal documentation, including emergency admission certificates, involuntary retention paperwork, assisted outpatient treatment documentation when applicable, and other documentation required under New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• • Complete timely, accurate, and comprehensive documentation in the electronic medical record.
• • Ensure documentation complies with NYU Langone policies, CMS and Joint Commission standards, New York State Office of Mental Health regulations, and New York State Mental Hygiene Law.
• • Complete all required legal and regulatory documentation accurately and promptly.
• • Maintain familiarity with departmental policies, CPEP protocols, NYU Langone Health policies, and New York State Office of Mental Health regulations.
• • Maintain all required credentialing, mandatory education, annual compliance training, influenza vaccination, fit testing, and institutional requirements.