Job Description

**Radius Rule:Candidate must have Permanent Address outside 70 Miles Radius from Facility**

Job Title: RN Corrections

Location: Pahrump, NV

Shift: Nights, 12Hx3

Contract Duration: 13 weeks

Pay Package

Travel Pay:$2,074/week

Breakdown-

• Stipend:$1,246/week
• Taxable:$828/week
• OT:$45/hour

Job Description

*Monitor, as directed, inmate/resident inpatient hospitalizations for early releases whenever appropriate.

*Provide guidance, supervise and monitor nursing care provided by licensed vocational/practical nursing staff and non-licensed medical staff.

*Maintain a good working relationship with facility staff, nursing staff, contract providers and outside provider agencies.

*Utilize established corporate, facility and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions, but use sound independent judgment in meeting the responsibilities and performing the duties of the position.

*Regularly evaluate the provision of medical services to prevent the inappropriate use, or duplication of those services.

*Maintain absolute security and confidentiality of all medical records.

*Assist Health Service Administrator with the review of medical files to determine all provided services are documented.

*Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.

*Audit pharmacy use for adherence to formulary, as directed or required.

*Comply with all applicable pharmacy laws, especially those covering controlled substances.

*Observe and record inmate/resident behavior.

*Inspect the medical unit for items that could be used as contraband by inmate/residents; securely store or safely dispose of supplies and equipment.

*Provide health counseling and health education on individual or group basis, as required.

*Assist Health Service Administrator to prepare and maintain a variety of standard narrative, statistical, summary and/or operational records, reports and logs, using appropriate grammar, to include filing, alphabetizing and labeling; properly process all reports and documents in a timely manner.

*Read, analyze, comprehend and interpret medical and technical procedures, governmental regulations, legal and non-legal documents.

*Review, process and respond (via corporate counsel) to lawsuits; attend court hearings, when necessary.

*Evaluate and recommend physical safety requirements necessary to provide a safe working environment.

*Facilitate, where applicable, NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program by providing the required level of efficiency and approved, appropriate medical services.

*Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policies and procedures; take appropriate action in cases of serious and unusual incidents and emergencies.

*Escort inmates/residents or coordinate the movement of inmates/residents to and from different areas for medical treatment.

*Perform searches of people and objects capable of concealing contraband, which will involve detecting and identifying objects.

*Engage in functions in confined areas that include such things as working rotating shifts and physically checking the doors, windows and other areas to verify they are secure.

*Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations.

*Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies and disasters to include administering basic emergency medical aid, securing and evacuating people from confined areas.

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