Forensic Medicine Coordinator

Forensic Medicine Coordinator

The Forensic Medicine Coordinator will have all the responsibilities of the coordinator. This is a weekend day position: Saturday and Sunday 7am-7pm, providing forensic exams for Albany Medical Center.

Additional Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with the SANE Medical Director, the Coordinator will train interested residents, nurses, mid-levels, and MD's to standardize the care delivered to victims of violence
• Ensure competencies for the sexual assault examiner are current and stay up to date.
• Scheduling the SAEs, ensuring their commitment is fulfilled.
• Compiling data collection, trends, etc. for grant funding with Medical Director.
• Responsible for maintaining forensic equipment and supplies.
• Responsible for the Chain of Custody for the evidence collected and storage of equipment.
• Develop a NYS training program for SAFE/SANE examiners and arrange training classes for SAEs as required.
• Oversee peer review of documentation, providing feedback for quality improvement.
• Conduct quarterly staff meetings for process improvement.
• Ensures the proper criteria are met in caring for victims of violence, in accordance with NYSDOH, International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), and Joint Commission standards of Excellence.
• Coordinates Community outreach trainings.
• Attend community outreach meetings i.e. area SART, DCJSAE, NYCASA, and communicates back the initiatives at staff meetings.
• Remain on the schedule for FNE cases, as needed, to stay current.
• Ensures providers are compensated for their cases as well as their on call pay.
• Continued involvement in open cases from beginning to end, including follow up from law enforcement, crime lab, and District Attorney's office.
• Performs audit reviews of sexual assault documentation and provides feedback to examiners on each case.
• Assists with organizing community events for examiners to attend.
• Provides examiners with dates for conferences that are local as well as in other states to attend.
• Creates a monthly newsletter to keep examiners up to date with changes/equipment/case review.
• Works with the Medical Director to ensure pediatric and adult documentation is standardized.
• Meets with the lab to stay current with process of pediatric SA collection and obtaining of cultures, quality review.

Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing Completion of a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner course in accordance with the International Association of Forensic Nurses Education Guidelines - required
• 1-3 years of recent acute care clinical experience as a registered nurse - required
• Fundamental nursing theories and current clinical concepts of care.
• Principles of growth and development.
• Disease processes and related treatments/care/medications.
• Diagnostic/therapeutic procedures and interventions.
• Assessments, treatments and medications related to forensic patients.
• Work effectively and cooperatively with a multidisciplinary team composed of professionals and paraprofessional persons from various community agencies.
• Communicate orally and in writing in a concise and easily understandable manner, including patient documentation, and in interactions with other agencies.
• Prioritize tasks and work effectively with complex tasks under pressure/time restraints/irregular schedules.
• Maintain confidential patient information.
• Clinical forensic nursing patient assessment and the use of equipment/instruments relevant to forensic patient care.
• Effective interpersonal communication and team skills which include listening, and interviewing techniques with patients, families, and staff.
• Problem solving techniques, critical thinking skills, and decision making.
• RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure Upon Hire - required
• BCLS - Basic Life Support Upon Hire - required
• NYS SAFE Certification Upon Hire - required
• SANE-A - Sexual Assault Nurse Exam Adult Upon Hire - preferred
• SANE-P - Sexual Assault Nurse Exam Pediatric Upon Hire - preferred
• TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course Upon Hire - preferred
• ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Certification Upon Hire - preferred
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support Upon Hire - preferred

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System! Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a "need to know" and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.