Clinical Nurse Manager (O-6 Billet) Supervisory

PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Understanding theories concepts principles and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services.
2. Applying a range and depth of knowledge acquired specifically through an intensive learning regimen of the phenomena theories and concepts of a scientific body of nursing knowledge.
3. Creating exploring evaluating designing and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems conditions and issues.
4. Identifying analyzing advising consulting and reporting on nursing theoretical and factual data conditions and problems as evidenced by demonstrating strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills.
5. Staying abreast of and evaluating nursing subjects analyses and proposals in professional literature.
6. Assessing resolving and predicting the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions.
7. Reasoning from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena.
8. Nurses collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop the nursing care patient plan and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups of patients.
9. Nurses evaluate execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals. Based on those evaluations they may recommend to nursing leadership any changes they believe necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients.
10. Nurses may function as consultants providing clinical advisory tasks related to such functions as developing and assessing clinical health outcomes quality measures; evaluating clinical case reviews for adequacy of care compliance with clinical and regulatory guidelines overpayment and audit recovery; and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews conducted by State or Federal health facility surveyors and in collaboration with IHSC Medical Quality Management Unit.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Requirements by Closing Date: Unless otherwise noted you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Service Remaining Requirement Agreement: Upon appointment to this position officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24-month commitment to IHSC.
• ASSIGNMENT PAY AGREEMENT: You must not have a current Assignment Pay Agreement. However if you have a current Assignment Pay Agreement it must be fulfilled within 90 days of your application submission.
• Applicants must be a current USPHS Commissioned Corps Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this are not eligible for this position.
• PHS officers must participate in IHSC TDY On-Call Schedule (ITOS.) ITOS is either an entire month or two 16-day periods a year where depending on the needs of the agency the officer is required to be available to serve.

Qualifications

TECHNICAL HEALTHCARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
   • Conducts interviews on newly admitted detainees with empathy to accurately identify needs and minimize and alleviate fears and anxieties.
   • Communicates and explains the institutions treatment programs to newly arrived detainees.
   • May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit.
   • Performs multiple complex tasks requiring advanced level of proficiency/independent functioning.
2. Applying basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes standards methods and their corresponding scientific principles and results.
   • Plans and/or collaborates patient care interventions with other health care professionals using in-depth knowledge of the specific patients status anticipating physiological and/or psychological appropriate or adverse responses.
   • Maintains patient and health record confidentiality.
   • Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively efficiently and effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare team as evidence by improved patient outcomes and improved staff satisfaction.
   • In addition to contacts with patients and patients families in a clinical setting and within immediate work environment communicates and collaborates with outside the immediate work environment with the department and other federal departments or outside the federal government (e.g. CDC TB Net state/local health department and other federal partners. Requires face to face contact and telephone dialogue on a routine basis. Work purpose is primarily to collaborate; supply advice; explain interpret and seek support for methods policies and programs; or render a service of a moderately complex nature requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.
3. Understanding and skill in applying predetermined procedures methods and standardized practices in a narrowly specialized healthcare field (nursing) or science or in performing technical work requiring originality initiative and practical judgment in using and adapting standardized medical techniques and methods.
   • Maintains non-involvement in correctional security/custody responsibilities.
   • Coordinates the treatment and transport if necessary of acutely ill or injured patients with healthcare team; coordinates referrals to off-site providers as required.
   • Reviews nursing documentation in identified patient records to assess treatment progress adequacy of record keeping and implementation of appropriate clinical nursing guidelines/documentation on on-going basis.
4. Carrying out tasks methods procedures and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents guidelines and standards.
   • Provides nursing services of a scope quality and quantity consistent with IHSC policies.
   • Maintains security when administering medications; maintains cognizance at all times of the potential hazard of drug hoarding and trafficking among detainees.
5. Collecting observing testing and recording factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients:
   • Differentiates between normal/abnormal findings making appropriate notifications to higher level providers and implementing appropriate interventions.
   • Applies knowledge of treatments and drug actions when making observations/ reporting patient response to treatments.
6. Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results on the basis of experience and practical reasoning.
   • Collaborates with CD and HSA in identifying/recommending needed modifications/improvements to multiple and complex clinical programs for improved efficiency of patient care.
   • Collaborates with CD and HSA with developing new operating procedures or program plans.
7. Staying abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training.
   • Serves as a team member for analyzing established protocol practices and identifying areas for improvement.
   • Reviews newly issued national directives and guides to identify updates in nursing practice; and implements training and education needed for employing the required process changes.
   • Knowledge of computerized data base sources and reporting methodologies.

1. This position is considered hazardous duty in a detention setting.
2. Requires physical exertion such as lifting objects greater than 30 pounds.
3. Must have the ability to assist sick injured or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting dragging wheeling or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self).
4. The work may necessitate some physical characteristics that will be required when responding to an emergency situation such as running short distance prolonged standing and working in an austere environment.
5. Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling.