Nurse Practitioner II-Inpatient Correctional Health Services

Nurse Practitioner II‑Inpatient Correctional Health Services Overview

This position is intended to fill a vacancy in Correctional Health Services and establish an eligible list for future vacancies.

• Elicit, record, and review medical histories and perform acute primary care examinations (pre‑employment, annual, periodic, and routine physicals) for patients ranging from newborn to geriatric, utilizing a problem‑oriented medical record.
• Provide general health instruction, family planning guidance, and specific medical education to patients, clients, and families.
• Coordinate individual and family health management using physician resources or community agencies, including referral for family planning, STD, AIDS, drug abuse, child care, and hygiene services.
• Conduct early diagnostic examinations (vision, hearing, pap smears, etc.), order lab tests, radiology, and cardiology studies, and interpret results to take action on abnormalities.
• Administer immunizations and injections.
• Identify medical, surgical, and psychiatric conditions requiring immediate consultation, treat conditions, and manage chronic illnesses according to physician protocols, including medication dispensing or administration.
• Provide prenatal care, postpartum follow‑up, newborn and well‑child examinations, comprehensive health screenings, and pediatric illness treatment.
• Assess patients’ emotional condition, counsel on psychosocial issues, and provide emergency treatment or referral for acute emotional upset.
• Work in hospitals, outpatient, custodial, public health, satellite, and mobile settings; make home and school visits; lead ancillary clinic staff; and coordinate clinic activities.
• Oversee nursing or medical students and other providers as assigned.
• Assist in quality assurance by reviewing clinic charts and conducting audits to ensure adequate medical management and follow‑up; provide consultation to other providers.
• Maintain accurate records and complete required forms and questionnaires.
• Participate in meetings, workshops, committees, and in‑service training sessions.

• Education: Completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner training program at an accredited college, university, or certified program.
• Experience: Two years as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Licenses & Certificates: Current registration as a nurse and certification as a Nurse Practitioner in California; current possession of a furnishing license through the California Board of Registered Nursing.
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  Qualifications:
  
  Must be credentialed and granted privileges through the San Joaquin General Hospital Committee on Interdisciplinary Practice within ninety (90) days of appointment; temporary privileges may be granted pending approval.

General procedures, techniques, and equipment used in family medicine, community health, mental health, and professional nursing; medical terminology; hospital and clinic routines; full range of medical conditions relevant to the specialty; maternal and child health practices; basic laboratory procedures; substance abuse treatment; public and mental health community agencies; human behavior principles, including mental illness causes and treatment; medical record keeping; cultural considerations;

communicable disease prevention and treatment.

Elicit and record complete medical histories; perform physical examinations; identify conditions requiring physician consultation; follow treatment protocols; communicate effectively; observe and evaluate emotional condition; interpret laboratory data; provide health instruction; lead and train staff; work independently when physician oversight is absent; manage high‑risk clientele.

Frequent standing, walking, occasional pushing/pulling, bending, and squatting; occasional lifting (≤5 lbs) and lifting/turning people; frequent color perception, eye/hand coordination, peripheral vision, depth perception, and reading; occasional holding and repetitive motion; constant hearing and speaking; occasional emergency situations and hazardous material exposure; frequent exposure to trauma, grief, and death; constant public contact, decision making,…