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Airway Heights Corrections Center Airway Heights, WA. Hourly salary: $27.05-$36.16

The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) 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 to promote wellness in preparation for return to the community.

At the Department of Corrections, we value our nurses and understand how important they are to our patients and their families. Additionally, we offer a great benefit package along with opportunity for professional and personal growth.

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.

On-Call Nurses:

• Be available to work all shifts (day, swing and graveyard) including weekends and holidays.
• To qualify for benefits upon hire, you must be willing to work 10 shifts a month.
• Provide written availability by the 10th of each month for the following month's coverage.
• Be willing to complete a paid three-week correctional worker core training M-F from 8 to 4:30 pm.

Under the direct or indirect supervision of a Registered Nurse, or Licensed Practical Nurse, deliver care to promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjustment to various health conditions. Provide health service to individual patients, groups of patients, staff employed at the correctional facility, and the public at large. Assist nursing process:

• Assist patients with personal care and activities of daily living such as bathing, personal hygiene, grooming, dressing, eating, positioning, transferring and ambulating. Perform passive and active range of motion.
• Assist the medical practitioner and physicians with examinations and provide assistance when necessary, including, but not limited to, paperwork and handling instruments needed for examination.
• Assist the laboratory with urine dip sticks, blood sugar testing, and transport.
• Assist with inpatient admissions and discharges.
• Ensure patient rooms are clean and free of unsafe conditions. Conduct inventory and daily checks of assigned areas to support quality improvement.
• Meet patient's personal hygiene and comfort needs, to ensure promotion and maintenance of musculoskeletal, integumentary, genitourinary, gastrointestinal systems integrity in inpatient unit.
• Practice infection control techniques and report any discrepancies to licensed personnel through the chain of command.
• Perform basic nursing procedures such as taking temperatures, pulses, respiration, and blood pressure.
• Apply barrier cream and lotions to intact skin; perform non invasive lab procedures and report results to a Registered Nurse.
• Apply external appliances such as braces, Uros heaths, hearing aids and perform active, passive range of motion and make beds.
• Answer call light, determine the nature of the problem and respond within the scope of training and to report appropriate chain of command.

Use tools, techniques, physical and cognitive skills and abilities to practice as a Nursing Assistant safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice as defined by State Law and Administrative Code to ensure patient care provided is safe, effective, efficient and clinically appropriate:

• Monitor and collect specific data, as directed, about health status, clinical condition, or situation of individuals, families, groups and communities by interview, observation, inspection, and examination.
• Report the results of monitoring and data collection to the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or Medical Practitioner.

Assist the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or Medical Practitioner in analysis and evaluation of the structure, process and timeframes for service delivery, the expected effects of treatment or intervention and the outcomes to be achieved:

• Assist the Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, or Medical Practitioner to revise the plan of care as necessary to prevent complication, to address new or emerging problems or to improve care and service delivery.

Ensure that they are in attendance, capable and competent to practice as a Nursing Assistant, as assigned:

• Participate in and evaluate your own practice for technical competency and safety, obtain education or training to retain or improve skills and abilities based upon the work assigned and inform immediate supervisor if there are specific tasks, techniques, skills or abilities are unable to perform competently.
• Report on and perform work as scheduled to ensure staff safety and patient care are not compromised.
• Remain on duty until adequate replacement has arrived and communication has occurred to ensure continuity of patient care.
• Work overtime (voluntary and mandatory) and callback shifts as necessary to maintain service delivery, safety and security.

Communicate effectively verbally, in writing, and via computer or other electronic media with patients, patients' families, other health care personnel, custody staff, and other institutional personnel to ensure information is solicited to identify problems and develop solutions to deliver care. Revise plan as necessary to ensure in safe, timely, and clinically appropriate service provision:

• Legibly document subjective and objective clinical findings, as well as actions taken to deliver nursing and other aspects of healthcare in the health record, computerized database and on the other DOC approved forms.

Establish therapeutic relationships that preserve professional boundaries with patients and their families. Teach and assist patients and their families to reduce health risks, improve their ability to provide self-care, manage symptoms and side effects, participate in prescribed treatment regimens, and to make informed decisions about health care and treatment:

• Provide accurate, authoritative information to groups or communities, the multidisciplinary health care team, and correctional personnel to ensure good clinical practices and health behaviors are promoted, and health risks are reduced.

Maintain regular and reliable attendance. Maintain positive and professional working relationships, remain calm and act professionally during all emergent conditions with the ability to recall detailed instructions. Maintain attention and concentration for extended periods of time and work collaboratively with diverse groups of staff and patients:

• Other duties as assigned.