About this role
Department/Unit:
SANE ProgramWork Shift:
Day (United States of America)Salary Range:
$78,773.63 - $122,099.12Providing forensic examinations for Albany Medical Center Monday through Friday, day shift, along with meeting the educational needs for our program.Additional Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with the SANE Medical Director, the Coordinator will train interested residents, nurses, mid-levels, and MD's to standardize the care delivered to victims of violence
- Ensure competencies for the sexual assault examiner are current and stay up to date.
- Scheduling the SAEs, ensuring their commitment is fulfilled.
- Compiling data collection, trends, etc. for grant funding with Medical Director.
- Responsible for maintaining forensic equipment and supplies.
- Responsible for the Chain of Custody for the evidence collected and storage of equipment.
- Develop a NYS training program for SAFE/SANE examiners and arrange training classes for SAEs as required.
- Oversee peer review of documentation, providing feedback for quality improvement.
- Conduct quarterly staff meetings for process improvement.
- Ensures the proper criteria are met in caring for victims of violence, in accordance with NYSDOH, International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), and Joint Commission standards of Excellence.
- Coordinates Community outreach trainings.
- Attend community outreach meetings i.e. area SART, DCJSAE, NYCASA, and communicates back the initiatives at staff meetings.
- Remain on the schedule for FNE cases, as needed, to stay current.
- Ensures providers are compensated for their cases as well as their on call pay.
- Continued involvement in open cases from beginning to end, including follow up from law enforcement, crime lab, and District Attorney’s office.
- Performs audit reviews of sexual assault documentation and provides feedback to examiners on each case.
- Assists with organizing community events for examiners to attend.
- Provides examiners with dates for conferences that are local as well as in other states to attend.
- Creates a monthly newsletter to keep examiners up to date with changes/equipment/case review.
- Works with the Medical Director to ensure pediatric and adult documentation is standardized.
- Meets with the lab to stay current with process of pediatric SA collection and obtaining of cultures, quality review.
Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center!
Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Medical Center, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
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About Albany Medical Center
Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic medical center, is one of the Capital Region’s largest private employers with more than 9,000 employees. Albany Medical Center provides the highest level of patient care across disciplines, while receiving regional, national, and international recognition for high standards in patient care, education, and biomedical research.
The 766-bed Albany Medical Center offers access to the latest medical services and technological innovations and includes one of the busiest emergency rooms and trauma centers in New York, a children’s hospital and dedicated pediatric emergency room, intensive care units for adults and children, and organ transplant services. Albany Medical College graduates more than 200 medical doctors each year, as well as PAs, CRNAs, biomedical scientists, and bioethicists. Albany Medical College operates a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physician practice with more than 500 doctors.
Albany Medical Center, along with Albany Medical College, is a partner in the Albany Med Health System, the largest and only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving northeastern New York and western New England.
What you'll do
- The Forensic Medicine Coordinator will provide forensic examinations and oversee the training of medical professionals in the SANE program. Additional responsibilities include maintaining forensic equipment, ensuring compliance with standards, and coordinating community outreach efforts.
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