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Health Advocates Network is seeking a RN - Corrections to work at a Facility in Cumberland, MD. This is a registry position with our company.
Days/Nights: 1 Day shift 6:30 am to 7:30 pm 12hr shift, 13 weeks
Pay Range: $52.00 – $57.39.00/Hr
Position location in Cumberland MD
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.
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.
- 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.
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