RN / Registered Nurse / California / Contract / Registered Nurse - Cor

Company: GIFTED Healthcare
Location: Lompoc
Posted on: February 5, 2020

Job Description:

JOB REQUIREMENTS Correctional Registered Nurse (RN) Local Job Correctional nursing involves providing treatment to incarcerated patients held in facilities like prisons, halfway houses and juvenile detention centers. Operating within the confines of various imprisonment facilities, correctional Registered Nurses perform many of the same tasks as nursing professionals who work in traditional medical establishments. Correctional Registered Nurse (RN) Responsibilities:

• The Correctional Registered Nurse provides adequate health care by assessing, diagnosing and treating inmates
• Maintain proper safety procedures, monitor medical supplies, such as needles and medication
• The Correctional Registered Nurse must oftentimes limit the use of potentially dangerous materials, like scalpels and intravenous drips
• Monitor patients' progress and responses to medical treatments, as well as administer medication and maintain disease clinics much like the RN in a more traditional setting
• The RN collaborates with primary care providers and other health care providers to ensure continuity, timeliness and appropriateness of care to patients
• Coordinates and/or administers medication, therapeutic agents, treatments, to inmate patients
• Assists physicians with medical treatments, administers prescribed medication, applies surgical dressings & bandages, Provides emergency first aid care
• Checks & records vital signs, obtains specimens from inmate patients for diagnostic testing
• Reports reactions to treatments and medications, as well as changes in the inmates?? emotional or physical condition, properly document patient medical histories
• 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
• Performs other position-related duties as assigned, depending on assignment setting BENEFITS OF BEING GIFTED!
  • Refer a nurse for this position and earn up to $1500 referral bonus when he/she completes a minimum of 8-week assignment. Refer a nurse for a PRN position, and earn $250 once he/she completes three shifts.
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Premium pay
  • Same Day or Weekly Pay
  • Ability to work in premier facilities
  • Access to Chief Nursing Officer 24-7
  • Access to Social Worker 24-7
  • Group Health insurance benefits:
    • Medical Plan
    • Dental Plan
    • Vision Plan
    • Short and Long Term Disability
    • AD&D Insurance Benefits of being a GIFTED TRAVEL NURSE
      • Private housing and housing allowance
      • Personal Career Coach
      • Extremely competitive personalized pay package FACILITY DETAILS This FCC consists of two facilities:USP Lompoc (medium security prison with adjacent minimum security satellite camp)FCI Lompoc (low security prison) ABOUT GIFTED HEALTHCARE GIFTED Healthcare is a company that believes in the power of one person to make a difference in patient care. Join the ranks of our rapidly growing team of healthcare professionals, and become that difference! Do you remember why you became a RN, at GIFTED? We do!

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