Registered Nurse - L349 - WSP

Registered Nurse 3

WA State Penitentiary Walla Walla, WA Monthly Salary Range: $9,001 - $14,749 Shift: Wednesday to Sunday - 2200 - 0630

The Department of corrections is seeking a Registered Nurse 3 for the WA State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, WA. This position supports the Department's mission to improve public safety by delivering and supervising others in the delivery of nursing services that promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjusting to various health conditions. This position supports the mission of the Health Services division by providing necessary, comprehensive, quality health services and promoting incarcerated individual wellness.

Provide clinical oversight of all nursing personnel under this position's supervision.

• Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the implementation of tasks and the results of patient care assigned to staff nursing personnel.
• Ensure that nursing personnel are in attendance, capable and technically competent to practice nursing as assigned.
• Hold staff accountable for reporting to and performing work as scheduled so that staff safety and patient care are not compromised.
• Assign work to be performed by other nursing personnel based on the scope of practice allowed by law for the staff assigned the work and their knowledge, skills, credentials, and abilities to perform the work.
• Follow the guidelines of the Collective Bargaining Agreement to ensure processes and staff management are fair and consistent.
• Perform staff evaluations in a fair, consistent, and timely manner to share positive feedback, and/or constructive critiques to encourage, challenge, and engage staff. Highlight opportunities for growth, professional development, and areas of expertise and success.

Assume accountability and responsibility for quality and efficacy of patient care services and delivery.

• Plan the delivery of health care, defining time frames and pathways for delivery of services, prioritizing and sequencing care to be provided, ensuring continuity of care over time and place.
• Use critical thinking to determine when a patient's condition dictates the need for a higher level of intervention or different modality of care.
• Identify when staff require clarification of orders to better provide practitioner-prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure, process and efficiency of service delivery, medical records documentation, and other nursing procedures to prevent complications, improve patient outcomes, and increase the quality of care.
• Manage medication administration and the area(s) where dispensed medications are stored so that medication is administered to patients safely and effectively; periodically review the maintenance logs, inventories, and other records as necessary to comply with Department directives and field instructions, Board of Pharmacy requirements, and DOH standards.
• Ensure that patients who have communicable diseases or whose health is at risk as a result of communicable disease are assessed, evaluated, and managed according to standardized infection control guidelines.

Ensure staff participation in training and orientation.

• Train, monitor, and supervise nursing staff to ensure that staff respond to medical emergencies involving incarcerated individuals, staff, and/or visitors in an appropriate, timely, and clinically competent manner, and emergency equipment and supplies are maintained in good working order, within expiration/usage dates and organized for immediate access and use.
• Participate as requested in planning the emergency response for natural disasters, drills, and other emergencies on all campuses of the institution.
• Practice and review the medical components of the emergency response plan as requested and update as needed, at least on an annual basis.
• Facilitate orientation process for new nursing staff and agency nurses. Provide technical guidance in using computer applications, such as CIPS, OMNI, and other equipment and software programs. Schedule attendance to security briefing, block training, OJT/orientation, etc., for new employees.
• Update training manuals and agency check list.

Use tools, techniques, physical and cognitive skills, and abilities to practice nursing safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice defined by state law and administrative code so that patient care provided is safe, effective, efficient, and clinically appropriate.

• Assess, monitor, and interpret objective and subjective data collected about the health status, clinical condition or situation by interview, observation, inspection, and examination to identify patterns and variances from the desired outcome.
• Diagnose health problems and determination of the outcomes to be achieved as a result of nursing intervention.
• Provide direct patient care when appropriate and serve as a resource to staff.
• In accordance with the intent and provisions of established policies, practices, and…