Registered Nurse 2 On-Call - WCC

Overview

Registered Nurse 2 On Call (RN2-OC) – Washington Corrections Center (WCC), Shelton, WA. Salary Range: $45.01 - $73.79 / hourly.

The Department of Corrections (DOC) is seeking highly motivated and qualified individuals to take on the dynamic role of on-call Registered Nurse for the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) located in Shelton, WA.

* Registered Nurses will receive shift differential in the amount of $2.50 per hour for evening shift and night shift work.*

Employees may qualify for one or both of these supplemental shift premiums in addition to the above.

• $1.00 per hour during any hours assigned to work from 11:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m.
• $3.00 per hour during any hours worked from Friday midnight to Sunday midnight.

The Washington Corrections Center is our reception center where all those assigned to DOC come for an initial evaluation and are then sent to other facilities for their care needs. This is a busy facility seeing patients for physicals and transfers. Washington Corrections Center has both inpatient and outpatient clinics that see numerous patients for different health needs and concerns.

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.

Practice nursing safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice defined by state law and administrative code:

• Assess, monitor, and interpret objective and subjective data.
• Develop nursing diagnoses and outcomes to be achieved as a result of nursing intervention.
• Plan the delivery of health care, defining time frames and pathways for delivery of services, prioritizing and sequencing care.
• Implement care plans by providing direct patient care, directing others about urgency, time frames, and methods to deliver health care on and off site, obtaining provider orders and accomplishing prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure, process, and time frames for service delivery, the expected effects of treatment or intervention, and the outcomes to be achieved. Revise the plan of care as necessary.
• In accordance with policies, employ appropriate safety techniques to push, pull, lift, and carry loads.

Delegate and assign tasks to other staff as appropriate:

• Delegate responsibility for patient care to other nurse and assistive nursing personnel after considering the needs, condition, and stability of the patient, potential for harm, complexity of task, and predictability of outcome.
• Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the implementation of tasks and the results of patient care assigned to other personnel.
• Direct and supervise subordinate health care staff assigned to a patient care area.
• Make nursing assessments; initiate treatment protocols accordingly.
• Ensure that practice is consistent with state licensure laws, administrative rules, policies, and procedures.

Communicate effectively verbally, in writing, and via computer or other electronic media with offenders, their families, other health care personnel, custody, and other institutional personnel:

• Protect the confidentiality of health records.
• Maintain accurate, legible, and complete records of patient care.
• Write nursing care plans and interdisciplinary treatment plans and complete other entries to support the problem-oriented health care record.
• Legibly document clinical findings, the rationale and plan for actions taken to deliver nursing and other aspects of health care.

Respond to health care emergencies throughout the facility and institution grounds:

• Provide emergency medical care including CPR, using triage format, to individual offenders, staff, visitors, and members of the community.

Provide competent nursing services:

• Assess the subjective and objective symptoms of patients' medical and emotional conditions during nursing triage, ambulatory care clinics, and infirmary rounds; initiate appropriate intervention according to Health Services policies and procedures, treatment plans, and protocols.
• Administer medical and nursing…