$55/hr RN Evenings

$114,400 - $114,400/Yr

Amergis - Albion, NY

Full-time - Entry Level

Albion, NY

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Correctional RN position at Amergis involves providing comprehensive nursing care to the incarcerated population in a correctional facility. The role requires collaboration with healthcare professionals and correctional officers to address the unique challenges of the correctional environment, ensuring both routine and emergency healthcare needs are met.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
• Performs focused interview to identify specific patient's needs
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition
• Conducts health histories on newly-admitted inmates
• Makes referrals of inmates to the staff physician, nurse practitioner, dentist, or mental health professional when necessary
• Determines the need for emergency hospital care and ensures medication is administered according to standard operating procedures
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from healthcare members and documents nursing diagnoses
• Documents the patient's plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based on patient care requirements
• Monitors consistency between patient plan of care and actions of medical staff
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and hospital policies
• Initiates and evaluates patient education
• Revises the plan of care according to evaluation and changes in medical plan of care
• Documents patient's response to nursing and other interventions
• Supervises, trains and directs other healthcare professionals on site such as LPNs, CNAs, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned/necessary

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse License for the state in which the nurse practices
• Minimum of one year of correctional health care experience preferred
• Complies with all relevant professional standards of practice
• Participation and completion of Amergis' Competency program when applicable
• Current CPR if applicable
• TB Questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable
• Current Health certificate (per contract or state regulation)
• Must meet all federal, state and local requirements
• Successful completion of new hire training as applicable to job site
• Understand patient confidentiality and HIPAA requirements
• Ability to effectively elicit/provide information to and from appropriate individuals via strong communication skills; proficiency in the English language is required
• Computer proficiency required
• Must be at least 18 years of age

Benefits

• Competitive pay & weekly paychecks
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Awards and recognition programs