Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc. is looking for a Registered Nurse, Corrections to work in Susanville, CA. Candidates will be under the general supervision, to provide professional nursing care in a correctional setting.
Pay Rate: $86-89/hr, working 40 hours a week. Overtime available
Examples Of Essential Functions

• Conducts intake assessments through interviews with patients and relatives to gather case history.
• Plans and provides nursing care for patients.
• Makes nursing diagnosis of the medical and emotional status of patients and recommends treatment options.
• Consults with patients and other staff in designing appropriate treatment plans for clients.
• Arranges further medical attention when necessary.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and secure environment for staff and patients.
• Test for vital signs of pain and ensures treatments of pain.
• Documents all patient information on medical charts and follows physician’s written orders.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Maintains accurate records and documentation of patient treatments, immunizations and laboratory results according to standard medical recordkeeping.
• Performs administrative assignments such as filing, answering phones, typing, and completing progress notes in the computer system.
• Provides courteous, high quality service to patients and members of the public by personally responding to requests for service or making appropriate referral.

Ability to:

• Apply professional nursing care principles and procedures in the evaluation and treatment.
• Keep accurate written charts and records of patient activities and progress.
• Comply with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures.
• Use professional judgment to ascertain and to apply appropriate intervention techniques with patients in crisis.
• Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals and function calmly in situations, which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.
• Provide prompt, efficient, and responsive service.
• Exercise appropriate judgment in answering questions and releasing information; analyze and project consequences of decisions and/or recommendations.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONSEducation: Graduation from an accredited program of registered nursing and possession of a valid and current Registered Nurse license issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
Experience: 1 year of RN experience REQUIRED