Registered nurse

Corrections Medicine Nurse

St. Louis County Department of Public Health has an exciting opportunity for nursing professionals to grow their skills in Corrections Medicine. This unique environment provides for utilization of critical thinking skills and a patient focused approach while using basic nursing and specialized practice areas to care for adult and juvenile patients across a variety of functional settings and health care needs.

This role reports to the Nurse Supervisor and requires strong skills in communication, documentation, partnership, and critical thinking. This is a 24/7/365 environment. Weekend and holiday hours are required.

As an employer, St. Louis County cares about the health and well-being of our employees. In an effort to provide for the best possible work-life balance, the County offers a generous benefit package which includes affordable health insurance, dental and vision coverage, 4 weeks of Paid Time Off the first year, 11 paid holidays, deferred benefit retirement plan, paid life insurance as well as short- and long-term disability.

St. Louis County Government is a qualified agency for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program managed by the Federal Government. For more information regarding this program, please visit Public Service Loan Forgiveness | Federal Student Aid

Delivers care focused on admission and sick call assessments for medical and mental health needs, medication administration based on manual management processes, and responding to complex, acute, urgent, and emergent health needs. Care may include specialized areas such as adult and juvenile medicine, general and trauma surgery, OB/GYN, orthopedics, psychiatry, dermatology, etc. Delivers health care to patients while navigating a secured correctional setting, which requires strong knowledge of security precautions, close partnership and negotiation with security staff, continuous focus on patient safety, and the customized and flexible approach to patient care in a complex environment that is often stressful and fast-paced.

Conducts comprehensive health care assessments and independently applies standing orders and other defined protocols, documents all health care with complete and appropriate information required to support the patient's care pathway, and applies critical thinking to identify scenarios in which clinical leaders and providers should be engaged. Conducts all patient care with a patient-advocate approach and demonstrates customer service, de-escalation, resilience, and partnership skills to maintain patient dignity at all times.

Complements job knowledge with quality work, productivity, strong work habits, dependability, positive attitude, and strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills. Performs related work as required.

Current licensure as a Registered Nurse by the Missouri State Board of Nursing. Requires Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification within 180 days of employment with St. Louis County.