Travel Nurse RN - Correctional - in Victorville, CA

Registered Nurse (RN) | Correctional
Location: Victorville, CA Agency: Adelphi Medical Staffing Pay: $50 per hour Start Date: ASAP

Adelphi is seeking Registered Nurses (RN) to provide services at a correctional facility in Victorville, California. The ideal candidates will provide nursing care to inmates at the facility while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards.

• Job
  -VICT-03
• Profession:
  Registered Nurse (RN)
• Location:
  
  Victorville, California
• Facility Type:
  Correctional Facility
• Job Type: Contract
• Shift
  
  Schedule:
  
  Mon-Fri, 40 hours/week
• Rate: $50

• Valid and unrestricted California license
• BLS (AHA)
• Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience (preferably in a clinical or correctional setting).

• Administer medications as prescribed i.e., by mouth, intradermal, subcutaneously, or intramuscularly.
• Assist with distribution of medications at pill line.
• Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for the inmate.
• Take medical histories, examine patients, and order and interpret laboratory tests and xrays.
• Perform venipuncture for the purpose of obtaining laboratory specimens.
• Adhere to infection control policies and procedures.
• Assist in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of the health care services.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
• Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plans.
• Provide direct patient care services in accordance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards.
• Perform nursing duties within the scope of the current licensure.