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RN Nurse Clinician - Forensic Health

Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better Together

Work location: Primary location will be 612 East Lamar Blvd, Arlington, Texas 76011

Work hours: Part time (20 hours), Nights 

Department highlights:

• Work Environment: Mobile Forensic Healthcare Unit that travels to provide medical forensic exams 
• Provide sexual assault medical forensic exams to the adolescent and adult populations
• Assist an administrative duties as assigned when not at the bedside.
• Opportunities to provide staff, community, and stakeholder education about interpersonal violence
• Opportunities for educational and career growth

Here's What You Need

• Associate's degree in nursing required
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred
• 2 years as a clinical nurse required
• RN upon hire required and
• BCLS prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required
• CA-SANE - Adult/Adolescent SANE certification through the Texas Office of Attorney General upon hire required or
• SANE-A - Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner -Adult Adolescent from the international association of Forensic Nurses upon hire requited
• CP-SANE - Pediatric SANE certification through the Texas Office of Attorney General within 18 months of hire required or
•  SANE-P - Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner-pediatric from the international association of Forensic Nurses within 18 months of hire required and 
•  Forensic education for advanced strangulation and interpersonal violence medical forensic assessments within 12 months of hire required 

What You Will Do

The Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) Clinician II job position supports the Texas Health Forensic Healthcare & Violence Intervention Department by providing comprehensive patient medical forensic care to patients who have experienced interpersonal violence to include but not limited to sexual violence, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, family violence, human trafficking, elder abuse, and workplace violence. The RN FNE Clinician II will also serve as a preceptor for Forensic Nurse Examiner trainees who are in the process of completing educational and clinical requirements to develop nursing skill required to care for patients that present for medical care due to interpersonal violence. Besides bedside clinical practice, the position also requires administrative duties such as billing, performance improvement activities, evidence transportation, ensuring entities are fully stocked with appropriate medical supplies needed for medical forensic exams, and other duties as specified by the department manager and/or director.

Travel required - Texas Health SANE Program responds to the following wholly owned entities: Texas Health Alliance, Texas Health Arlington Memorial, Texas Health Azle, Texas Health Cleburne, Texas Health Dallas, Texas Health Denton, Texas Health HEB, Texas Health Kaufman, Texas Health Fort Worth, Texas Health Southwest, and Texas Health Stephenville

• Provide timely, non-judgmental, compassionate care to patients with a complaint of assaultive violence by utilizing the nursing process to identify and prioritize needs
• Assess patient's psychological and social needs and makes appropriate referrals, collaborates closely with rape crisis center hospital accompaniment advocate and/or family violence agencies to ensure optimal outcomes.
• Demonstrate ability to identify needs of patients with a complaint of interpersonal violence that would require physician intervention in a timely manner.
• Perform a complete medical forensic examination for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment to include: a medical history, detailed head-to-toe assessment for trauma to include all body orifices if applicable, forensic specimen collection as indicated by history or examination findings, and photo documentation.
• Maintain chain of custody for each exam and adhere to best practices and evidence protocols.
• Recommendations to medical staff for appropriate laboratory testing and/or prophylactic medications per department protocol.
• Maintain equipment in proper working condition and exercise fiscal responsibility with department's resources.
• Maintain expertise and current knowledge based on best practices in performing medical forensic exams per recent research and best practices from forensic science, trauma and related issues, legal case law and statutes, evidence collection procedures and emerging trends.
• Maintain professional role boundaries as a FNE separate from crime lab, advocacy, and judicial systems of law enforcement, prosecution, and defense. 
• Accurately represent the medical forensic exam during courtroom testimony when subpoenaed.
• Participate in professional development including departmental staff meetings, in-services, case reviews, and other education as assigned by leadership.
•  Participate in community education and prevention efforts in collaboration with or as assigned by leadership.
• Maintain patient logs on a regular basis to ensure reports can be generated in a timely manner
•  Ability to interact and communicate effectively with patients, families, THR staff, and outside agencies to promote optimal patient outcomes. 
•  Assist THR Entity ED Business Office with invoicing by submitting accurate invoices to Business Office within 72 hours after medical forensic examination is complete.
•  Facilitate documentation storage by scanning all pertinent paper documents to the appropriate file in HIM and file paper documents per document storage protocol.
•  Provide guidance to all FNE PRN staff and FNE trainee staff in EMR documentation as the ED CareConnect content expert.
•  Provide guidance to all FNE PRN staff and FNE trainee staff in the use of the encrypted camera system, evidence kits, completion of documentation to include CVC applications and other duties as determined.
•  Orient all new FNE trainees to service sites under direction of the department managers and/or director.
•  Serve as a real-time resource for THR entity staff, transfer center, and community partners as needed as regards the management of the patient presenting with a complaint of interpersonal violence.
•  Maintain services hubs and sites to ensure all areas are stocked and clean at all times.
•  Facilitate collection of camera cards and evidence collection kits from services sites.
•  Facilitate quality assurance assessment of 100% of charts and report to department manager on a regular basis.
•  Precept FNE trainees/students to meet training objectives for medical forensic exams and clinical requirements adult/adolescent and pediatric SANE certification under direction of department leadership.
•  Seek advice, collaboration, and support from department leadership in managing challenging clinical care situations.
•  Maintain professional standards that do not create conflict of interest with employment or patient care, including patient and medical record confidentiality.
•  Maintain all Human Resource requirements for continued employment in a timely manner, such as but not limited to, licensure, annual employee health assessment, annual MyTalent modules, RQI modules, and performance evaluations.
•  Other RN duties as assigned by department leadership team.

Additional perks of being a RN Nurse Clinician - Forensic Health

• Benefits include 401k, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount programs, as well as other benfits 
• Delivery of high quality of patient care.
• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
• Learn more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.

Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.

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