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The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Director ensures a comprehensive review of the Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner’s assessment practices related to Patient 8’s suicide and homicide risk and Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health – Veterans Enhanced Treatment status; and consults with the appropriate Human Resources and General Counsel Offices to determine whether personnel action is warranted and takes action, as appropriate.
The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Director ensures a comprehensive review of the Behavioral Health Nurse Practitioner’s assessment and documentation practices including suicide risk assessments, assessment of antipsychotic medication health factors and side effects, informed consent for off-label medication use, resolution of rule-out diagnoses, and use of copy and paste, and provides training as needed.
The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Director aligns VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Memorandum TX-154, Use of Psychopharmacologic Agents, December 20, 2018, with leaders’ expectations for the assessment and documentation of abnormal involuntary movements and metabolic problems for patients prescribed an antipsychotic medication.
The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Director makes certain that behavioral health managers verify that all elements of the behavioral health nurse practitioner ongoing professional practice evaluation are reviewed.
The VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Director ensures a comprehensive review of managers’ oversight of behavioral health nurse practitioners’ ongoing professional practice evaluations and consults with the appropriate Human Resources and General Counsel Offices to determine whether personnel action is warranted and takes action, as appropriate.
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that facility providers consistently conduct urine drug testing as recommended for patients on long-term opioid therapy.
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, makes certain that facility providers follow up with patients within three months after initiating opioid therapy to assess adherence to the pain management plan of care and effectiveness of interventions.
The Under Secretary for Health, in conjunction with Veterans Integrated Service Network directors and facility senior leaders, ensures that facilities monitor the quality of pain assessment and effectiveness of pain management interventions.