Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Los Fresnos, TXContract / Full-time$88/hrPosted 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner provides psychiatric care within the scope of licensure. The role includes conducting mental health examinations, diagnostic testing, assessments, and screenings; prescribing medications; and instructing patients and family members about psychiatric illnesses and treatment options.
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Full job description
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner provides psychiatric health care services to patients within scope of license, performs mental health examinations, diagnostic testing, assessments and screenings, prescribes medications and instructs patients and family members on psychiatric illnesses and treatment options.
Minimum Requirements:
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Licensed as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) by state in which employee is practicing
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One year experience as a PMHNP preferred
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Three years’ experience in mental health field preferred
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Maintain collaboration agreements, per state requirements
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Complies with all relevant professional standards of practice
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Current CPR if applicable
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TB questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable
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Current Health certificate (per contract or state regulation)
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Must meet all federal, state and local requirements
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Must be at least 18 years of age
Job Category: Advanced Practitioner
Job Function: Advanced Practitioner | NP | NP - Psychiatric
Job Type: Contract - Full Time
Setting: Healthcare Facilities
Position Type: Healthcare
Office Number: 0727
Contract Duration: 156
Pay Rate: $88 / Hour
Date Posted: 2026-11-05
How this job compares
Set against the 10,034 open Nurse Practitioner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$88/hr
- Texas median$65–78/hr36 hourly ranges
- US median$46–85/hr2,545 hourly ranges
This rate, $88/hr, is 28% above the Texas median midpoint ($69/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse Practitioner hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 603 open Nurse Practitioner jobs in Texas and 10,034 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Houston Methodist92 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health70 open
- HCA Healthcare55 open
- Experience
- Nurse Practitioner postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,902 postings).
- Education
- 3,538 of the 10,034 open Nurse Practitioner jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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