Registered Nurse - Corrections RN (Nights)

• Full-time
  
• Night shift
  

Registered Nurses in this Healthcare facility practice collaboratively, providing care in ambulatory, emergency, mental health, and infirmary settings

• 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 experience as a licensed registered nurse in a hospital, medical office, or residential setting
  
• MUST BE A US CITIZEN
  
• 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; 40hrs per week
  

• $2 Evening differential
  
• $3 Night differential
  
• $3 weekend differential
  
• 80hrs Paid Time Off
  
• 7 Paid sick days
  
• 11 Paid Federal Holidays
  
• 1.5x Holidays
  

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
  
• Flexible schedule
  
• Health insurance
  
• Paid time off
  

Work Location: In person