Employer: Advanced Correctional Healthcare
Job Title: RN – Health Service Administrator
Additional Information: https://www.nursingnetwork.com/nursing-jobs/1035945-health-service-administrator-registered-nurse
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 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 ACHÂ
- 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
