Registered Nurse - SCCC

Registered Nurse 2

Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Aberdeen, WA.

Hourly Salary: $45.01‑$73.79

Monthly Salary: $7,832.00‑$12,839.00

Schedule: 1:30 pm‑10:00 pm (1330‑2200) Sunday‑Thursday (Friday/Saturday off)

The Department of Corrections is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Registered Nurse 2 (RN2) at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center located in Aberdeen, WA.

This position supports the Department's mission to improve public safety by delivering and leading others in the delivery of nursing services that promote health, foster healing, and support coping and adjusting to various health conditions. This position supports the mission of the Health Services division by providing necessary, comprehensive, quality health services and promoting incarcerated individual wellness.

Registered Nurses will receive shift differential in the amount of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour for evening shift and night shift work. Employees may also qualify for one or both of these supplemental shift premiums in addition to the above.
A. One dollar ($1.00) per hour during any hours assigned to work from 11:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m.
B. Three dollars ($3.00) per hour during any hours worked from Friday midnight to Sunday midnight.

At the Department of Corrections, we value our nurses and understand how important they are to our patients and their families. Additionally, we offer a great benefit package along with opportunity for professional and personal growth.

The mission of the Department of Corrections is to 'improve public safety by positively changing lives’. For additional information visit our website .gov.

Application assessment will be ongoing; the hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It’s the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible. This recruitment could be used to fill multiple permanent or non-permanent positions.

Use tools, techniques, and physical and cognitive skills and abilities to practice nursing safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice as defined by state law and administrative code so that patient care provided safe, effective, and clinically appropriate.

• Assess, monitor and interpret objective and subjective data collected about the health status, clinical condition or situation by interview, observation, inspection, and examination to identify patterns and variances from the desired outcome.
• Develop nursing diagnosis and outcomes to be achieved as a result of nursing intervention.
• Plan the delivery of health care, defining time frames and pathways for delivery of services, prioritizing and sequencing care.
• Implement care plans by providing direct patient care, directing others about emergency, time frames, and methods to deliver health care on and off site, determining when needs for care or services become more urgent, require clarification, or require another type or level of intervention. Obtain provider orders and accomplish prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
• Analyze and evaluate the structure, process, and time frames for service delivery, the expected effects of treatment or intervention, and the outcomes to be achieved. Revise the care plan as necessary to prevent complications and intervene to address new or emerging problems or to improve care and service delivery.
• In accordance with the intent and provisions of established policies, practices, and procedures, employ appropriate safety techniques to push, pull, lift and carry loads.

Delegate and assign tasks to other staff as appropriate:

• Delegate responsibilities for patient care to other nurse and assistive nursing personnel after considering the needs, condition, and stability of the patient, potential for harm, complexity of task, and predictability of outcome.
• Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the implementation of tasks and the results of patient care assigned to other personnel.
• Make nursing assessments based on subjective and objective data collected and presented by subordinate health care staff, and initiate treatment protocols accordingly.
• Ensure that…