Registered Nurse

IHMS USA, Inc. provides medical services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals and families who are migrating, displaced, or affected by conflict, disaster, or disease. For more than 20 years, IHMS has delivered compassionate, high-quality healthcare services across the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IHMS USA focuses on supporting communities across the Western Hemisphere while drawing on the global experience and best practices developed by IHMS teams around the world.

Our work is driven by a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in complex environments. To support this mission, IHMS has developed accredited and compliant management systems that help ensure quality care while tracking and coordinating every aspect of patient health services. These systems promote transparency, strengthen safeguarding practices, and provide near real-time visibility into clinical operations.

We understand that many of the individuals we serve are navigating difficult and uncertain circumstances. That’s why our care model includes access to comprehensive behavioral health services when needed, ensuring patients receive both medical and emotional support.

For healthcare professionals, working with IHMS means being part of a mission-driven team dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Our teams operate around the world and stand ready to provide compassionate care wherever it is needed most. For more information, please visit:(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

This position is contingent on contract award.

Provide on-site nursing services within the facility health services program, including initial medical screening, support for comprehensive health assessments, daily sick call support, medication administration, emergency response, patient documentation, continuity-of-care support, and culturally competent, trauma-informed care for patients in accordance with community standards of care, applicable detention standards, facility policies, and state licensure and credentialing requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform on-site nursing functions within current state licensure, certification, credentialing, facility policies, and accepted standards of care.
• Perform or support initial medical screening within 12 hours of patient arrival, including tuberculosis screening, collection of medical history, vital signs, and pregnancy screening when applicable, and expedite positive findings to a qualified licensed practitioner within required timelines.
• Support comprehensive health assessments within the required intake time frames using required screening and assessment tools or approved equivalents.
• Solicit, triage, and document patient requests for health care daily through the required written accountability process and health record documentation workflow.
• Provide nursing support for infectious disease screening and treatment, emergent, urgent, acute, chronic, and emergency care, treatment of minor injuries, and care for patients with special medical needs.
• Administer prescribed medications and injections within role authorization, facility capability, and provider direction, including oral, topical, intramuscular, and subcutaneous medications.
• Support limited intravenous fluid and intravenous medication administration where available within facility capability and role authorization.
• Perform or support simple wound care and dressing changes, screening tests, blood glucose monitoring, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, routine electrocardiograms, basic vision and hearing screening, immunizations, health education, and counseling within role authorization and facility capability.
• Respond to medical emergencies, provide initial stabilization, support transfer to a higher level of care when required, and complete related documentation and referral actions within required time frames.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential patient documentation in the Electronic Health Record and other required medical records systems.
• Support continuity of care for transfers, releases, and removals by ensuring current…