Registered Nurse- Corrections - Exciting Challenge

Days or nights: Days or nights

Shift: 7a-7p, 3p-11p, 7p-7a, or 11p-7a

Pay Per Hour: $64 -$71/hr

Travel Stipend available and is tax free if you live 50 miles away from the assignment.

Summary: Provides health care for those who have been incarcerated in a controlled/safe environment. This includes case management, responding to episodes of acute illness, emergency call management, medication administration, psychiatric evaluations, and assessment of new inmates.

Requirements:

• The requirements are: At least one year (12 months) of experience as a nurse.
• A valid and current nurse license issued within the US
• Valid and current CPR
• Corrections is a plus but not a must - training provided.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in oral and written English.

Job Responsibilities:

• Health Assessments
• Sick Call Clinic
• Provides general nursing care to patients.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques.
• Prepares equipment and aids physicians during treatments and examinations of patients.
• Observes patient, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies supervisor or physician of patient's condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents.
• Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assess the condition of patient.
• May serve as leader for group of personnel rendering nursing care to number of patients.
• Additional duties given by Supervisor.
• Collaborates with primary care providers and other health care providers to ensure continuity, timeliness, and appropriateness of care to inmate patients.
• Coordinates and/or administers medication, therapeutic agents, treatments, to inmate patients.
• Applies surgical dressings & bandages.
• Provides emergency first aid care.
• Reports reactions to treatments and medications, as well as changes in the inmates' emotional or physical condition
• Provides inmate patient education and/or discharge planning.
• Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.
• Promotes a therapeutic environment to ensure inmates are treated in a professional, ethical, and tactful manner.