Registered Nurse - AHCC

Registered Nurse 2

Airway Heights Corrections Center, Airway Heights, WA. Hourly salary: $46.84-$76.79 Monthly salary: $8,151.00-$13,362.00

Schedule:

2:00pm-10:30pm ) Thursday-Monday (Tues/Weds off)

The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Registered Nurse 2 (RN2) for the Airway Heights Corrections Center located in Airway Heights, WA. 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 supports the mission of the Health Services division by providing necessary, comprehensive, quality health services and promoting incarcerated individual wellness. Registered Nurses will receive shift differential in the amount of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour for evening shift and night shift work. Employees may also qualify for one or both of these supplemental shift premiums in addition to the above.

A completed application packet will include: a detailed resume.

The mission of the Department of Corrections is to 'improve public safety by positively changing lives'. For additional information visit our website .gov

Application assessment will be ongoing; the hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It's the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible. This recruitment could be used to fill multiple permanent or non-permanent positions.

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 the urgency, time frames, and methods to deliver health care on and off site, determining when needs for care or services become more urgent, require clarification, or require other type or level of intervention. Obtain provider orders and accomplish 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 care plan as necessary.
• In accordance with the intent and provisions of established policies, practices, and procedures, 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.
• 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 incarcerated individuals, 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.

Provide competent nursing services

• Assess the subjective and objective symptoms of patient's medical and emotional conditions during nursing triage, ambulatory care clinics, and infirmary…