Nurse Practitioner

The Nurse Practitioner, with an approved collaborative practice agreement, provides advanced nursing services and patient care in the facility's medical program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Diagnose, treat, and care for incarcerated patients.

Conduct physical examinations and identify short-term and long-range patient care issues that must be addressed.

Determine abnormal conditions by administering or ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests.

Manage wounds and infections.

Prescribe and administer medications as appropriate. 

Counsel inmates on preventive care, medical problems, and use of prescribed treatment.

Performs routine wound care, minor debridement, and dressing changes.

Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.

Utilizes the results of Quality Assurance to improve standards of inmate care and standards of nursing practice.

Complies with all rules, directives, policies, procedures, and protocols of the intuition. 

Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Current & valid Nurse Practitioner (NP) license

BLS/CPR certification

Current DEA license and prescriptive authority

Must be able to pass background check

Experience as practicing as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the appropriate area of practice. Correctional experience preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements: 

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to satisfactorily perform these essential functions without causing an undue hardship for the employer.

Continuous sitting for up to 2-3 hours

Continuous periods of walking and standing for 4 or more hours per shift

Occasional climbing stairs up to 3 times per shift

Remaining awake and alert while on duty for 12 or more hours per shift 

Lifting and carrying up to 20 lbs periodically and lifting up to 50-100 lbs rarely

Frequently working on computers/tablets throughout the shift

Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting

JOB DESCRIPTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/CERTIFICATION: I certify that I can perform the essential function of the position with or without reasonable accommodation(s). Please use this sheet of paper to list accommodation requests. My signature certifies my understanding of the requirements, essential functions and suits of the position.

Salary: $140,000 annually