Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner

Pay Rate: $150,000.00 Salary

The Nurse Practitioner, with an approved collaborative practice agreement, provides advanced nursing services and patient care in the facility's medical program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Diagnose, treat, and care for incarcerated patients.
• Conduct physical examinations and identify short-term and long-range patient care issues that must be addressed.
• Determine abnormal conditions by administering or ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests.
• Manage wounds and infections.
• Prescribe and administer medications as appropriate.
• Counsel inmates on preventive care, medical problems, and use of prescribed treatment.
• Performs routine wound care, minor debridement, and dressing changes.
• Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient management plans.
• Utilizes the results of Quality Assurance to improve standards of inmate care and standards of nursing practice.
• Complies with all rules, directives, policies, procedures, and protocols of the institution.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Current & valid Nurse Practitioner (NP) license
• BLS/CPR certification
• Current DEA license and prescriptive authority
• Must be able to pass background check
• Experience as practicing as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the appropriate area of practice
• Correctional experience preferred but not required

Physical Requirements:

• Continuous sitting for up to 2-3 hours
• Continuous periods of walking and standing for 4 or more hours per shift
• Occasional climbing stairs up to 3 times per shift
• Remaining awake and alert while on duty for 12 or more hours per shift
• Lifting and carrying up to 20 lbs periodically and lifting up to 50-100 lbs rarely
• Frequently working on computers/tablets throughout the shift
• Frequent grasping, reaching, pushing, pulling, bending, twisting