POSITION: Nurse Practitioner/ APRN
SCHEDULE: PartTime, 8 hours per week
FACILITY: Central Regional Jail
LOCATION: Sutton, WV
Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.
- Guaranteed salary or hourly rate
- No nights or weekends
- No insurance authorizations
- Patient and medicine focused
POSITION SUMMARY
- Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
- Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
- Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
- Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
- Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
- Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
- Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.
- Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- LICENSURE: StateAdvanced Practice Registered Nurse license/ NP certification required at start date
- StateDEA required at start date
- CERTIFICATION: Current CPR certification required at start date
- EDUCATION: Graduate of college/university Advanced Practice Registered Nurse program
- PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 1-2 years clinical experience preferred.
- EOE/M/F/D/V