Advanced Care Practitioner-SP-WSP

Advanced Care Practitioner

WA State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, WA

Hourly salary Range: $66.22 to $105.53

Department of Corrections is looking for an Non-Perm Advanced Care Practitioner for the WA State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, WA.

Under the supervision of the Facility Medical Director, this position contributes to the agency's mission to improve public safety by delivering quality health care to the Incarcerated Individuals population in a timely and professional manner, promote a healthy lifestyle, and provide patient health care education. This includes assessing, diagnosing, and treating the multitude of medical issues encountered.

This position monitors, manages, coordinates, and delivers health care; and counsels, consults, teaches, advises, and provides health care information to the patient that improves the quality and continuity of health services. Supervises and monitors all levels of health care services delivered to the Incarcerated Individuals population and assists Health Care Managers and the Facility Medical Director in monitoring expenditures, planning, and organizing health care services, facilities, and other programs.

Application assessment will be ongoing, and 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."

Under the supervision of a qualified physician, provide primary routine, urgent, and emergent medical care, including diagnostic, therapeutic, preventative and health maintenance services.

• Diagnose health related problems and determine outcome of acute and chronic illnesses.
• Ensure continuity of care. Deliver health care, defining time frames and pathways for delivery of services, and determining priorities and sequences of care to be provided.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure, process and time frames for service delivery; the expected effects of treatment or intervention; the outcomes to be achieved; revision of the plan of care to prevent complications; and intervene to address new or emerging problems or to improve care and service delivery.
• Implement the plan of care by providing direct patient care; directing others about urgency, time frames, and methods to deliver health care on and off-site; determining when need for care or services become more urgent, need clarification, or another type of level of intervention; and take action as necessary to provide orders and accomplish prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Complete screening/intake assessments and perform physical examinations.
• Initiate PULHES coding and other health classification requirements
• Perform minor surgical procedures and suture of simple lacerations
• Order and interpret appropriate diagnostic laboratory tests and provide preliminary readings of X-rays.
• Prescribe medications including controlled substances as indicated.
• Provide medical and technical assistance to other health care personnel as required.
• Refer complicated and complex cases to staff physicians and outside medical consultants and facilities when necessary.
• When assigned, provide primary care services at the SMU, MSU, IPU and Living Units.
• Admit and care for infirmary patients when needed.
• Participate in rotational Health Care Provider in response to after-hour emergencies including weekends, holidays and during daily, weekend, and holiday rounds in the infirmary when physicians are not available.
• Practice in accordance with DOC Policy and WA DOC Health Plan.
• Participates in formal clinical oversight according to facility and DOC Health Services Clinical Oversight Structure.

Provide effective communication and documentation. Delegate and assign patient responsibility through appropriate communication to the nurses and assistant nursing personnel.

• Evaluate and consider the needs, condition, and stability of the patient, potential harm, complexity of task, and predictability of outcome to determine appropriate assignment.
• Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the Implementation of patient care tasks.
• Collaborate with management to facilitate implementation for processes that affect nursing staff, custody, support staff, and other departments that impact patient care.
• Provide medical health and safety advice with regards to Incarcerated Individuals to custody staff when necessary.
• Provide medical input to respond to routine and…