MDPerm
RN Corrections Registered Nurse
Jena, LA · Part-time · Healthcare
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About the job
Registered Nurses in this Health Services facility practice collaboratively, providing ambulatory, emergency, mental health, and infirmary care.
- Full-time
- NIGHT shifts
- 8hrs/10hrs/12hrs available
- Perform intake screening and physical exams to identify conditions requiring referral or treatment.
- Provide care for common acute problems via nursing guidelines
- Complete nursing rounds for patients in infirmary care and segregated housing
- Provides direct care to patients
- Performs prescreening and intake screening of patients newly arrived at the facility.
- Uses established intake tools for gathering subjective and objective data, referring abnormal findings or responses to a medical, dental, and/or behavioral health provider
- Performs sick calls, assessing and treating acute problems
- Refers patients to an NP/PA, physician, behavioral health provider, and/or dentist
- Performs physical examinations
- Provides clinical supervision to Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel
- Administers medications as ordered. (via the oral, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, topical, ophthalmic, and other enteral and parenteral routes)
- Performs various treatments such as wound care, vital sign checks, electrocardiograms, etc. as ordered by a medical, dental, and behavioral health provider or registered nurse.
- Collects laboratory specimens and performs point-of-care testing or prepares specimens for laboratory processing. Takes appropriate action on lab results received.
- Respond to medical emergencies and render emergency care to stabilize patients and prevent deterioration, and transfer patients to appropriate levels of care.
- May be required to participate in involuntary, court-ordered care.
- Current, full and unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse in Louisiana or licensed in a compact state that allows practice in Louisiana.
- Minimum one year of experience as a licensed registered nurse in a hospital, medical office or residential setting
- Experience in a detention/correctional or residential healthcare setting is preferred.
- Graduate from a nursing program accredited by The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
- Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing must possess a current, full, active and unrestricted registration to meet this requirement.
- Full-time
- NIGHT shifts
- 8hrs/10hrs/12hrs available
- $2 Evening differential
- $3 Night differential
- $3 weekend differential
- 1.5x base Holiday
- PTO, Sick pay, Health benefit
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