Registered Nurse 2 - AHCC

State of Washington • Spokane County - Airway Heights, WA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Corrections is hiring a Registered Nurse 2 at Airway Heights Corrections Center in Airway Heights, Washington. This position delivers and leads nursing services that promote health, foster healing, support patients in coping with health conditions, and advance the Health Services division’s mission to provide comprehensive, quality care and promote the wellness of incarcerated individuals.

The nurse provides nursing assessment, triage, treatment, care planning, documentation, and emergency response in a correctional setting. The role also includes directing and delegating patient-care tasks, mentoring new employees, participating in quality improvement and clinical oversight, and coordinating with patients, families, healthcare personnel, custody, and other institutional staff. The nurse may be cross-trained to work at different locations within a facility or compound.

The position is scheduled from 2:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, with Friday and Saturday off. Evening and night work may qualify for shift differentials and supplemental shift premiums. The position is based at a corrections facility and may involve working directly with or near incarcerated individuals in a potentially hazardous setting.

Requirements

• Hold an initial and continuous unencumbered Washington State Registered Nurse license, or an unencumbered multistate license from a participating Nurse Licensure Compact state, with completion of Suicide Prevention, EDIR training, and the MLS demographic survey.
• Have at least one year of experience working as a Registered Nurse.
• Have American Heart Association Healthcare Provider CPR training.
• Be proficient with computer-based programs for scheduling, monitoring and tracking patient information, data entry, word processing, email, and other programs needed for assigned work.
• Be able to work independently and with limited supervision.
• Demonstrate analysis skills, including interpreting data, evaluating options, reaching accurate conclusions, and making decisions using judgment and critical thinking when guidelines are unclear.
• Demonstrate observation and inspection skills, including detecting problems and changes in people, conditions, and the environment, and communicating findings through thorough documentation.
• Demonstrate decisiveness, including making timely decisions under ambiguous circumstances or with limited data and appropriately delegating decision-making authority.
• Provide at least three professional references, with a phone number and email address for each.
• Meet the position’s physical requirements, including working in spaces, climbing stairs, walking long distances, frequently lifting up to 30 pounds, and, rarely, lifting or carrying up to 50 pounds and pushing up to 100 pounds.
• Complete required respirator medical evaluation, fit testing, training, and use of respiratory protection as required by Washington industrial safety standards.
• Provide proof of work authorization that does not require employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting or correctional facility.
• Certification as a Correctional Healthcare Professional.
• Experience participating in a business quality improvement process, including brainstorming, proposing improvement plans, or measuring success.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ subjective and objective medical and emotional symptoms during nursing triage, ambulatory care clinics, and infirmary rounds, and initiate appropriate interventions under applicable policies, treatment plans, and protocols.
• Administer medications and nursing treatments, perform dressing changes, monitor and evaluate vital signs, prepare specimens for laboratory analysis, start and administer IVs, provide traction, and assist with minor surgeries.
• Participate in the Correctional Healthcare Team, including coaching and mentoring new employees during orientation, observing their performance, giving feedback to supervisors, and evaluating job training when requested.
• Participate in Health Services quality improvement activities and formal clinical oversight, and practice in accordance with DOC policy and the Offender Health Plan.
• Assess, monitor, and interpret clinical data; develop nursing diagnoses and expected outcomes; plan and prioritize care; implement care plans; obtain provider orders; and evaluate and revise care plans as needed.
• Direct others regarding the urgency, timing, and methods for delivering healthcare on or off site, and determine when care needs become more urgent or require another classification, intervention, or level of service.
• Use appropriate safety techniques when pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying loads.
• Delegate and assign patient-care tasks to nursing and assistive personnel based on patient needs, stability, potential harm, task complexity, and predictability of outcomes; teach, monitor, supervise, and evaluate assigned work.
• Direct and supervise subordinate healthcare staff assigned to a patient-care area, make nursing assessments, initiate treatment protocols, and ensure practice complies with licensure laws, rules, policies, and procedures.
• Communicate verbally, in writing, and through computers or other electronic media with incarcerated individuals, families, healthcare personnel, custody, and other institutional personnel.
• Protect health-record confidentiality and maintain accurate, legible, complete patient-care records, nursing care plans, interdisciplinary treatment plans, and documentation of clinical findings and care decisions.
• Respond to healthcare emergencies throughout the facility and grounds, including providing emergency medical care and CPR using triage procedures to incarcerated individuals, staff, visitors, and community members.
• Maintain professional nursing conduct, remain capable and competent to practice as assigned, and stay on duty until an adequate replacement arrives and continuity-of-care communication has occurred.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with professional boundaries; counsel, teach, and assist incarcerated individuals; and provide accurate information to groups or communities.
• Remain adaptable to changing healthcare delivery needs and, if cross-trained, work at locations throughout the facility or compound.

Benefits

• Comprehensive family medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Up to 25 paid vacation days a year.
• Eight hours of paid sick leave per month.
• Twelve paid holidays a year.
• Generous retirement plan, including applicable PERS or PSERS options.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Dependent Care Assistance.
• Deferred Compensation.
• Evening and night shift differentials, with possible additional premiums for specified overnight and weekend hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed