Health Services Administrator- Registered Nurse

Health Services Administrator- Registered Nurse

Woodbury County Jail - IA - Sioux City, IA 51101

Overview

Salary Range $110,000.00 - $110,000.00 Salary/year Position Type Full Time Job Shift Day Education Level 2 Year Degree Travel Percentage None Category Nursing/Nursing Support

Description

SUMMARY:

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reports directly to and meets with the Assistant Regional Nurse Mangers, Regional Nurse Manager or Director Medical Operations, and prepares reports as requested
• Always maintains a professional attitude
• Maintains a good working relationship with correctional personnel, nursing staff, contracted providers, outside provider agencies and corporate office staff
• Is always tactful and diplomatic and functions as a role model for staff
• Utilizes established corporate and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions but uses sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties of the position
• Develops, revises, interprets, and ensures compliance with policies, procedures, aims, and philosophy of ACH and the assigned correctional facility
• Recruits, orients, supervises, and evaluates performance of nursing and clerical personnel
• Assigns, directs, and promotes associates as a supervisory function
• Hires, transfers, lays-off and recalls associates as staffing needs require
• Counsels, disciplines, suspends, and/or terminates associates who violate policies established by ACH or the facility
• Completes a yearly written evaluation on all directly supervised staff, a 30 day and a three (3) month evaluation on nursing associates who are under direct supervision
• Ensures adequate staffing at facility
• Fills in as needed during periods of short staffing

• Ensures appropriate licensure on nursing and certified medical personnel, i.e., nurses, CMAs dental assistants, etc.
• Audits payroll, professional time sheets of nursing personnel, reports hours and reviews use of overtime
• Review adherence to staffing contract.
• Oversees services rendered by contractors and professional staff and reports to the contractors' supervisor as indicated
• Supplies written job descriptions to nursing staff
• Ensures the proper flow of relevant information (policies, procedures, in-service, problems, etc.) to supervisors and supervised personnel
• Completes and submits monthly statistical, narrative, summary and/or operation reports as requested by facility administration
• Conducts peer reviews for nursing personnel of equal or lesser educational level
• Maintaining a current copy of the facility's medical policies and procedures and ensures they are readily accessible to nursing staff
• Participates in CQI meetings conducted by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations
• Audits weekly logs and received billing statements/invoices, and forwards them to corporate office
• Maintains absolute security of all medical records
• Audits medical files to ensure that all provided services are documented using the SOAP format
• Screens requests for records and seeks approval/disapproval from jail administration; then responds appropriately
• Reviews, processes, and responds to records requests as directed by ACH attorneys
• Reviews status of inmates with serious health problems ensuring necessary intervention and treatment is completed
• Monitors inpatient hospitalizations and works with jail administration for early release whenever appropriate
• Reviews referrals to outside consultants for necessity of referral and communicates with jail administration for security restrictions or concerns
• Monitors the provision of contractual medical services, i.e., radiology, lab, etc.
• Regularly evaluates the provision of medical services to prevent the inappropriate use/duplication of those services

• Assists jail administration and ACH billing department to Identify financial responsibility (inmate, correctional, ACH, insurance company, etc.) for all incurred expenses
• Closely monitors potential catastrophic illnesses; explores and utilizes all appropriate means of limiting both ACH and corrections' liabilities, if appropriate
• Evaluates and recommends methods of improving operation efficiency and effectiveness
• Monitors and promotes staff compliance with applicable pharmacy regulations, including those covering controlled substances
• Reviews/approves medical supply and pharmacy orders
• Seeks ACH approval for necessary supplies not on the routine supply list
• Monitors and evaluates physical safety requirements to ensure safe working environment
• Monitors and/or provides an in-service program suitable to the facility health care program when able to do so on-site
• Meets with designated jail administration on a monthly or as needed basis
• Meets with contracted agencies and jail administration as directed by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations
• Functions as liaison between ACH and other professional organizations
• Monitors to confirm the provision of commitments and services made to or by ACH
• Accepts on-call status
• Must be able to perform CPR when needed
• Attends seminars, workshops, conference, etc. as required by (and at the expense of) Advanced Correctional Healthcare
• May be asked to travel
• May be asked to train new hires and coworkers
• Adheres to established policies of ACH and the facility
• Any and all other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Active nursing license in the state in which services are to be provided, in good standing
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training
• Excellent documentation skills
• Must be able to drive a motor vehicle
• Knowledge of the nursing scope of practice