Registered Nurse - Corrections

Location: Grafton

A-Line Staffing is now hiring a Psychiatric Registered Nurse in Massillon, OH!! The Position would be working for a great company and has career growth potential. If you think this Registered Nurse position is a good fit for you, please reach out to me - feel free to call, e-mail, or apply to this posting! – Kyle Gregory This would be full time / 40+ hours per week.

- Must be available to work: 2nd Shift - 5 - 8 hour shifts with Sunday/Monday Off. Schedule is subject to change based on the needs of this department with a 2 week notice. If changed, schedule would likely be 4-10 hour shifts with either S/M/T or T/F/S off. Flexibility is required in the schedule. Apply only if you are available for all 3 listed shifts.

Pay Rate: 45-50/hr compensation Benefits are available to full-time employees after 90 days of employment and include health, optical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance A 401(k) with a company match is available for full-time employees with 1 year of service on our eligibility dates Highlights This position is a contract assignment with potential to hire on permanently based upon attendance, performance, and business needs Must be available to work: 2nd Shift - 5 - 8 hour shifts with Sunday/Monday Off.

Schedule is subject to change based on the needs of this department with a 2 week notice. If changed, schedule would likely be 4-10 hour shifts with either S/M/T or T/F/S off. Flexibility is required in the schedule. Apply only if you are available for all 3 listed shifts.

Responsibilities

Description:

JOB DUTIES IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE: (These duties are illustrative only. Incumbents may perform some or all of these duties or other job-related duties as assigned.)
• Provides professional nursing care to students hospitalized in student health services unit, or to inmates, juvenile offenders, or consumers housed in state-owned/operated facility/institution &/or staff, observes, assesses & records symptoms, reactions & progress of infirmary patients &/or clinic out-patients, makes nursing rounds, takes & re cords vitals, prepares & administers prescribed medications & ordered treatment plans &/or immunizations, monitors restrained (e.g., lock-ups, detention, isolated) patients on timely bas is (i.e., every 15 minutes) & provide s immediate medical attention to emergencies (e.g., administers first aid;

arranges transportation to hospital emergency room; contacts staff physician when necessary; counsels patient regarding need for medical referrals) & if assigned, also schedules, assigns & reviews work (i.e., has authority to either approve/disapprove leave requests or to complete performance evaluations, but such is not mandatory to be performed) of lower-level staff (e.g., RNs, LP Ns), participates in staff development & education, reviews care plans written by staff & trains & orients new employees;

OR In corrections medical center, is responsible for all health care of 20-60 bedridden inmates (i.e., makes rounds, evaluates care needed & rendered; does care plans & teaches health care principles; administers medication including narcotics; renders all direct nursing care as needed) & performs specialized procedures (i.e., iv therapy, chemotherapy, wound care, oxygen therapy, dialysis, blood transfusion, incubation & CPR, tube feeding, catheterization, suctioning & phlebotomy duties).

• Organizes & oversees 'code blue' team; directs health care staff (e.g., hospital aides & licensed practical nurses) assigned to area; acts as lead worker in charge of one assigned shift in absence of nurse 2 employee' assists physician in giving diagnostic health evaluations to students.
• Performs clerical tasks (e.g., charts & records all medications, treatments & pertinent medical information; completes required reports such as incident & accident reports; documents Medicaid information; orders supplies & equipment; maintains constant & exact inventory of all controlled drugs, medication & equipment); arranges for out-patient clinic appointments; arranges for medical examinations to be done by school physician; arranges for new & refilled prescriptions ordered by physicians through…