Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN / Nurse Practitioner)
About The Position
The Clinical Lead is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse who owns clinical quality, scope-of-practice discipline, and medical oversight for the LCEC account across all three emergency shelter sites. The role establishes and maintains standing clinical protocols and the emergency-escalation chain, supervises the site Charge RNs and deployed clinical staff, provides the medical-oversight arrangement contemplated by SOW §14, and oversees shelter health monitoring including behavioral-health and stress-indicator monitoring under SOW §3.5. The Clinical Lead safeguards the clinical documentation quality that feeds the SOW deliverables and the FEMA / 2 CFR Part 200 recordkeeping environment. The position works primarily remotely during activations and deploys on-site when clinical complexity, staffing, or client need requires it.
Requirements
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN / Nurse Practitioner) license in Florida.
- Ability to provide medical oversight within the scope of Florida APRN licensure and practice authority.
- Proficiency in evaluating, diagnosing, and managing illness and injury.
- Ability to order diagnostics, treatments, and medications as permitted by Florida law.
- Experience in supervising clinical staff.
- Knowledge of HIPAA safeguards.
- BLS certification.
- Required certifications for clinicians.
- Reliable connectivity, a backup power source, and a backup means of communication for remote work during activations.
- Availability for activation up to 72 hours before anticipated landfall, through impact, and into recovery.
- Ability to acknowledge activation notice and confirm availability promptly (company target: within one hour of LCEC notice).
- Able to report on-site at a North Fort Myers shelter within 24 hours when on-site presence is required.
- Maintain a named alternate arrangement so clinical oversight is never unavailable during an activation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in emergency nursing services.
- Experience in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery.
- Experience with FEMA / 2 CFR Part 200 recordkeeping.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain standing clinical protocols, screening and triage standards, and infection-prevention guidance across all sites.
- Enforce RN / LPN / CNA scope-of-practice discipline and clinical-quality standards.
- Own the emergency-escalation chain and EMS-coordination standards; serve as the clinical point of escalation for Charge RNs.
- Provide the medical-oversight arrangement within the scope of Florida APRN licensure and practice authority.
- Evaluate, diagnose, and manage illness and injury within APRN scope when practicing on-site; order diagnostics, treatments, and medications as permitted by Florida law and the applicable practice arrangement as needed.
- Advise Charge RNs on clinical decision-making, escalation thresholds, and EMS-transfer criteria.
- Oversee shelter health monitoring, including behavioral-health and stress-indicator monitoring for shelter occupants and deployed personnel.
- Identify emerging clinical patterns — heat illness, dehydration, fatigue, communicable-disease clusters — and direct mitigation.
- Supervise Charge RNs and deployed clinical staff across all three sites.
- Support the Staffing / Deployment Coordinator on credential-verified rosters and named alternates.
- Confirm each assigned clinician's licensure, BLS, and required certifications before activation; support credentialing and primary-source verification.
- Ensure clinical documentation supports the daily operational nursing reports, incident reports, and after-action report; uphold HIPAA field safeguards.
- Lead clinical content of the final after-action report due within 10 business days of demobilization.
Benefits
- PRN / activation-based, account-level role
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Career Level
Manager
