RNCare Manager- WCCW

Gig Harbor Washington

Shift: 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 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.

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…