Kafayat

Board-Certified PMHNP with autonomous practice providing psychiatric evaluations, DSM-5 diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, supportive psychotherapy, and longitudinal medication management for adult and geriatric patients. Independently manages approximately 80 psychiatric encounters weekly across five skilled nursing facilities. Experienced treating serious mental illness, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma-related disorders, and dementia-related behavioral symptoms.

Adept at telepsychiatry workflows, interdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based prescribing, and CMS-compliant documentation. Passionate about providing collaborative, compassionate, and culturally competent care that promotes meaningful positive patient outcomes. Committed to creating a supportive environment where patient feel empowered while delivering comprehensive, individualized care tailored to each patient's unique needs and circumstances.

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Post Acute Behavioral Health

(2025-11)

• Provide autonomous psychiatric evaluations, diagnosis, medication management, and longitudinal follow-up across five skilled nursing facilities.
• Manage approximately 80 psychiatric patient encounters weekly while maintaining continuity of care for adult and geriatric populations.
• Treat schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, dementia-related behavioral disturbances, and Parkinson's disease psychosis.
• Optimize psychotropic regimens through evidence-based prescribing, gradual dose reductions, deprescribing when appropriate, and monitoring efficacy, tolerability, and medication adherence.
• Provide supportive psychotherapy, psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, and behavioral activation during medication management visits.
• Perform suicide risk assessments and evaluate psychosis, agitation, aggression, delirium, and other behavioral crises, implementing timely pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Partner with physicians, nursing leadership, rehabilitation, social services, and family members to develop individualized treatment plans aimed at reducing avoidable hospitalizations.
• Complete timely CMS-compliant documentation, electronic prescribing, interdisciplinary communication, and regulatory documentation.

Registered Nurse – Behavioral Health - Antelope Valley Medical Center

(2023-08 - 2025-10)

• Performed comprehensive psychiatric assessments in a high-acuity inpatient behavioral health unit.
• Managed patients with psychosis, suicidality, mania, aggression, withdrawal, and severe depression.
• Applied therapeutic communication and crisis de-escalation while collaborating with psychiatrists and interdisciplinary teams.

Charge Nurse – Behavioral Health Urgent Care

(2023-02 - 2023-09)

• Directed daily clinical operations and coordinated psychiatric emergency response.
• Supervised medication administration and continuity of care.

Registered Nurse – PACU

(2022-11 - 2023-08)

• Managed post-operative patients with complex medical comorbidities.

Registered Nurse – Medical-Surgical/Telemetry/Oncology

(2021-10 - 2022-11)

• Delivered comprehensive nursing care and patient education.

MSN - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - National University (2024)

MSN - University of California, Irvine (2021)

BA - Psychology - University of California, Los Angeles (2017)