Registered Nurse - Correctional Health Services

Job Description

Job Description

Medica Talent Group is excited to share this TEMP opportunity with you! Our client, a reputable community-based health care organization in Orange County is seeking a Temp RN to join their growing team!

Overview

The Registered Nurse (RN) will be responsible for conducting intake, triage screenings, and assessments for the juvenile department. The ideal candidate will perform nursing duties in a correctional facility, or 24-hour mental health care setting in an environment involving stress, potential risks, and critical or unexpected situations

Responsibilities :

• Performs comprehensive and focused physical assessment relative to presenting complaints including examination for injuries, acute and chronic illness, drug and / or alcohol withdrawal, and mental health status.
• Takes a complete patient history consisting of inquiry about the complaint, history of present physical or mental illness, past medical history, and family and social history. Refers to higher level of care as necessary.
• Determines appropriate case management, and initiates treatments and requests for commonly performed laboratory studies according to the standardized procedure.
• Conducts adult patient sick call.
• Administers treatment, drugs, and medicines as prescribed by physicians or standing protocol for basic and emergent medical and / or mental health conditions. This may include dressing wounds and injuries, venipuncture, performing suture removal; or may perform invasive procedures such as urinary catheter insertion, IV insertion, maintenance, and care of indwelling catheters, or oxygen administration.
• Maintains accurate and concise patient documentation in the Electronic Health Record or paper charts; records, observes, identifies, interprets, documents, and reports changes in patient's condition; reviews patient records to keep informed of patient's health status.
• Obtains lab specimens (e.g., blood, urine, stool, nasopharyngeal, etc.).
• Responds to medical or psychiatric emergencies throughout the facility and takes appropriate action within standardized procedures and guidelines. Performs Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Performs discharge planning as is appropriate. Reviews and completes appropriate discharge documentation.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of :

The ideal candidate will have the ability to :

Pay : $65 per hour

Schedule : Evening shift (2 : 30pm-11pm) and alternating weekends

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