RN3 Care Manager- WCCW
State of Washington · Pierce County - Gig Harbor, WA
Description
Washington Corrections Center for WomenGig Harbor WashingtonRegistered Nurse 3- Care ManagerShift: 7:00AM-3:30PM Monday- Friday The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified individual for the position of Registered Nurse 3- Care Manager at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), in Gig Harbor Washington. This is a day shift position that will require work to be completed onsite at the facility.
This position supports the Department’s mission to improve public safety by delivering and leading others in the delivery of nursing services that promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjusting to various health conditions. This position serves an essential function in DOC Health Services population health management model as the clinician providing consultation and care coordination for patients identified as the most medically complex and highest need. This position works closely with primary care teams, other DOC clinicians, and facility HS administrators in caring for patients, and ensures care coordination for high needs patients through incarceration and assists reentry staff in bridging them to the community health care system after release. This position supports the mission of the Health Services division by providing necessary, comprehensive, quality health services and promoting offender wellness.
The Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) is a 62.6-acre facility located approximately two miles from Gig Harbor. The site includes living units, administration buildings, a health clinic, education buildings, a gymnasium, a chapel, industries buildings, food service buildings and support facilities.
Correctional Health is a rewarding career path at DOC, in which health care professionals treat a wide array of cases for patients residing in a state correctional facility. Health Services is responsible for basic primary care for incarcerated individuals. All disciplines within all of the 12 correctional facilities work closely together to reach a common goal, providing the best, most efficient, and cost-effective health care possible. Emphasis is placed on early identification of health concerns, care for acute and chronic health problems, and preventive care.
A completed application packet will include:- A detailed resume
- A cover letter.
- Three professional references
- Required Transcripts
Applications will be reviewed as they are received. The hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It is to the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible.
"This recruitment could be used to fill multiple permanent or non-permanent positions."
Duties
Duties will include:
Ensures continuity and coordination of care for patients identified as medically complex.
- Collaborates with Reentry Nurse and Psych Social Worker to ensure continuity of care for high complexity patients after release, to include clinical communication and health information transfer with patient’s community PCP, ensuring post-release appointments in the community are made, and a post-release self-management is in place.
- Ensures continuity of care at intra-system transfer by direction communication with the receiving facility’s primary care team and/or care coordinator as applicable.
- Ensure continuity of care after hospital discharge or emergency department evaluation.
Provides direct patient care and monitoring to the facility’s high complexity patient population.
- Performs initiail comprehensive nursing assessments on patients newly referred for care management, including collection and review of subjective and objective data.
- Evaluates patients post discharge from hospitalization or emergency department evaluation.
Develops and implements a care plan for facility’s identified as high complexity patient population in collaboration with primary care team.
- Synthesizes available objective and subjective medical data to create a person and condition specific plan of care upon evaluation.
Collaborates with primary care team, other clinical disciplines, and HS administrative staff to care for the facility’s identified high complexity patient population.
- Receives and evaluates referrals from primary care team and other Health Services staff for enrollment in the DOC HS Care Management program.
- Works in conjunction with Patient Services Representative (PSR), Patient Navigator, and primary care Medical Assistant to ensure completion and follow up on offsite referrals.
- Collaborates with primary care practitioner in management of patient’s chronic and acute illnesses, including communicating any changes in the patient’s status.
- Collaborates with other clinical disciplines as indicated including behavioral health, dental, and SARU.
- Participates in scheduled multidisciplinary team meetings with the primary care team, Facility Medical Director, and other clinical disciplines to review the status of the complex patient population as needed.
Participates in system-wide development of DOC HS Care Management program.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Initial and continuous unencumbered licensure in the State of Washington as a Registered Nurse
OR
- An unencumbered Multi-State License from a participating Compact Licensure State and completion of the MLS demographic survey.
AND
- Two years’ experience working as a Registered Nurse.
- Training by the American Heart Association in Healthcare Providers CPR.
- Proficient using computer-based programs to schedule, monitor and track patient information, perform data entry and word processing, and communicate via email, as well as other programs that may be needed to complete assigned work.
- Ability to work independently and with limited supervision.
In addition to the above, this position requires:
Analysis - Uses data and information in a clear and rationale thought process to assess and understand issues, evaluate options, form accurate conclusions and make decisions. Identifies key facts, understands the nature and relationship between data elements, recognizes underlying principles or patterns in an array of data, and determines if additional data should be collected. Uses judgment and critical thinking in the absence of clear guidelines to draw conclusions about further action.
Observation and Inspection - Critically observes and inspects people, conditions, and the environment to detect problems. Acutely aware of critical details, alert and attentive when performing other work, understands normal conditions and constantly compares the current status to the norm to identify subtle changes and incremental deviation, makes informed judgment about when a change in current status must occur and determines appropriate action. Uses insight to identify contributing and mediating factors. Understands thorough documentation and other forms of communication to cause others to understand and take appropriate action.
Decisiveness - Makes timely decisions without sacrificing quality even under ambiguous circumstances or when data is limited. Recognizes when a decision must be made and moves forward, delegates decision making authority appropriately, advocates for important patient care objectives and finds common ground, and solutions among diverse interests.
Supplemental Information
Mission: The mission of DOC is to improve public safety by positively changing lives.
Our Vision: Working together for safer communities.
Our Commitment: To operate a safe and humane corrections system and partner with others to transform lives for a better Washington.
Our Core Values:
- Cultivate an environment of integrity and trust: Corrections va