Registered Nurse - Correctional Officer-Hospital Ii; Evening Shifts

Position: REGISTERED NURSE - CORRECTIONAL OFFICER-HOSPITAL II (EVENING SHIFTS)
## REGISTERED NURSE - CORRECTIONAL OFFICER-HOSPITAL II (EVENING SHIFTS)
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Cranston:
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Posted Yesterday:
End Date:
October 13, 2026 (8 days left to apply):
JR104066#
** Department
* * Department of Corrections#
** Division
* * Healthcare Licensed Nurses#
** Salary**$83,686.00 - $#
** Job Profile
** JC- - Correctional Officer - Hospital II (Evening Shifts) (RIBCO Nurses Correctional Officer Hospital Hierarchy)#
** Scheduled Work Days & Work Hours
** This posting is for (4) four positions.

Assigned schedule and facility to be determined.  This position requires five (5) eight-hour shifts per week. Employees may be assigned to either of the following shifts:
* Second

Shift: 2:52 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
* Third

Shift: 10:52 p.m. – 7:00 a.m.  Weekend and Holiday Requirements:
Employees are required to work every other weekend and every other holiday.#
** Job

Requisition Number
** JR104066 REGISTERED NURSE - CORRECTIONAL OFFICER-HOSPITAL II (EVENING SHIFTS) (Open)#
** Pay Grade
** C0B652 A#
** Classification
* * Correctional Officer - Hospital II (Evening Shifts)#
** Class Definition
**** GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES:
** To provide professional nursing care and treatment to inmates in the Adult Correctional Institutions; to assess clients’ needs and plan, develop, implement and evaluate nursing care and treatment programs; and to do related work as required.
** SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
** Works under the general supervision; work is subject to review and evaluation for compliance with instructions, professional nursing standards and practices.
** SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
** Plans, monitors and evaluates the activities of licensed practical nurses and ancillary unit personnel engaged in providing nursing and /or health care services to inmates and staff.
** ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED:
*** To provide professional nursing services within the Department of Corrections.
* To conduct nursing interviews, assess and formulate nursing diagnoses, and to set clinical nursing goals for clients.
* To interpret nursing and health care needs of inmates to other members of inmates to other members of the interdisciplinary team.
* To provide medical and nursing therapies, health care instructions and counseling to inmates and families. To provide in-service education to departmental health care staff.
* To participate in educational, quality assurance and research activities.
* To continually monitor the health status of clients and to modify their nursing care plans as the need arises.
* To monitor clients’ mental health status and make referrals to mental health staff as indicated.
* To provide intravenous therapy as directed by the physician including; starting the IV, maintaining an IV infusion pump if appropriate, determining and monitoring the flow rate, administering IV medications and other clinical actions appropriate to intravenous therapy.
* To administer IV, IV-push and Z-track medications as ordered by physician.
* To administer and monitor total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
* To provide suctioning as indicated, including tracheostomy, deep nasal pharyngeal and oral suctioning.
* To provide routine tracheostomy care.
* To insert GI (Gastrointestinal) tubes as directed by physician and to provide and monitor GI feedings if appropriate (internal feedings, both intermittent and continuous).
* To change dressings on wounds involving multiple tissue layers and to irrigate communicating wounds as ordered by physician.
* To respond to emergency codes anywhere in the institution, assess injuries and provide first aid to inmates and staff.
* To safeguard institution keys and to lock and unlock secured clinical areas including exam rooms, storage areas, medicine closets and related areas.
* To make observations and report any…