Nurse Practitioner -PRN

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-PRN role at Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc.

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

• Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments.
• Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.
• Must document dates and times of provided site coverage by logging hours into online payroll system.
• Provide 24/7 on-call phone services.
• Provide back-up call for other facilities as needed.
• Personally examine patients as needed; remain on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen.
• Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, mindful of adverse reactions, interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc., and prescribe for appropriate duration based on professional judgment.
• Review patient medical records as appropriate.
• Sign off on orders as appropriate.
• Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures unless doing so would be counter to common sense.
• If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer.
• Attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year.
• Perform any and all other duties as assigned.

• Valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, PA) in the state in which services are to be provided is required.
• Current Board Certification required.
• Current DEA registration required.
• Current collaborative agreement, if required by state.
• Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery required.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a motor vehicle required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands‑on training required.

Entry level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care