Adelphi is seeking Registered Nurses (RN) to provide services at a correctional facility in Herlong, California. The ideal candidates will provide nursing care to inmates at the facility while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
Job Quick Facts:
• Job ID: GS-FCIHRG-01
• Profession: Registered Nurse (RN)
• Location: Herlong, California
• Facility Type: Correctional Facility
• Job Type: Contract
• Shift Schedule: 40 hours/week (8 hours/day-5 days/week OR 10 hours/day-4 days/week) - Specific days TBC
• Rate: $50
Requirements:
• Valid and unrestricted California/Nevada license
• BLS (AHA)
• Minimum 3 years of experience.
Responsibilities:
• Administer medications as prescribed i.e., by mouth, intradermal, subcutaneously, or intramuscularly.
• Assist with distribution of medications at pill line.
• Monitor and evaluate the response to therapy.
• Perform skin testing.
• Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for the inmate.
• Take medical histories, examine patients, and order and interpret laboratory tests and xrays.
• Perform venipuncture for the purpose of obtaining laboratory specimens.
• Adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
• Assist in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of the health care services.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plans.
• Provide direct patient care services in accordance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
• Perform nursing duties within the scope of the current licensure.