Nurse Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision, scheduling, assignment, and day-to-day oversight of nursing staff and nursing services.
• Plan, assign, and evaluate nursing care to support intake screening, sick call, chronic care, urgent care, emergency response, and continuity of care.
• Ensure on-site nursing services support required arrival screening, health assessments, daily triage of health care requests, medication administration, and follow-up care within required timeframes.
• Coordinate nursing care with physicians, advanced practice providers, behavioral health personnel, dental staff, and other members of the multidisciplinary health care team.
• Ensure prompt recognition, escalation, and response to medical emergencies, including initial stabilization, emergency transfer coordination, and required notifications.
• Support safe and secure transfer of patients for hospital, specialty, and other off-site services, including continuity of care documentation and required medical transfer information.
• Monitor nursing documentation, medical record completeness, and use of the electronic health record to support accurate, timely, and confidential patient care documentation.
• Ensure nursing practices comply with applicable licensure requirements, credentialing requirements, privacy requirements, infection prevention requirements, and evidence-based standards of care.
• Support quality assurance, risk management, corrective action, audits, inspections, and internal compliance monitoring related to nursing and health services operations.
• Support staffing readiness by maintaining supervision, verifying performance expectations, identifying training needs, and escalating staffing or competency gaps that may affect safe operations.
• Coordinate with designated points of contact on referrals, off-site appointments, hospitalizations, medications, and continuity-of-care requirements for transfer, release, or removal.
• Participate in reviews of protocols, workflows, and nursing operations to identify improvement opportunities and support efficient, safe, and contract-compliant patient care.
• Maintain professional communication and effective working relationships in a multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multilingual environment, using professional interpretation services when needed to support patient communication.
• Perform duties within the scope of licensure as a Registered Nurse when required to meet operational needs.
• Complete required organizational compliance education, including assigned requirements that are client-specified, for Joint Commission Healthcare Staffing Services certification or other regulatory bodies.
• This list is non-exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake additional duties that are not specifically listed above.
• Basic Requirements/Certifications:
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted Registered Nurse license in Texas or the ability to obtain one.
• Minimum six years professional nursing experience.
• Experience in a detention or correctional healthcare setting is preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Education Required:
• Graduate from a baccalaureate or graduate nursing program for Registered Nurses located in a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory accredited by The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Attributes and Professional Qualities:
• Demonstrated nursing leadership and staff supervision capability.
• Strong clinical judgment and ability to recognize and respond to health-related emergencies.
• Ability to coordinate care across disciplines and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to review documentation for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Ability to work effectively in a secure, multidisciplinary, multicultural, and multilingual environment.
• Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient records and personally identifiable information.
• Ability t

Benefits

Additional Information

This position is contingent on contract award. The Nurse Manager is responsible for supervising nursing staff and overseeing nursing operations to support safe, timely, and contract-compliant health care services for patients in custody. The role ensures delivery of nursing care consistent with applicable health services requirements, supports intake and ongoing care processes, maintains nursing readiness for emergency response, coordinates continuity of care for transfers and off-site services, and promotes staff training, accountability, documentation quality, and adherence to privacy, safety, and credentialing requirements.

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