Location
Virginia | United States
Job description
SH - 343 RN - Corrections , Chesterfield, VA
About Syra Health:
Syra Health is a healthcare consulting company with a mission to improve healthcare by providing innovative services and technology solutions. Syra Health aims to achieve its goal by becoming a valuable partner to government, payers, providers, life sciences organizations, and academic institutions. Syra Health offers products and services in digital health, behavioural and mental health, population health management, health education, and healthcare workforce.
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Responsibilities:
- Registered Nurses provide nursing care within adult institutions by utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating institutional patients per the standards of practice.
- Standard of care is achieved through a multitude of services to include 24-hour nursing care, telemedicine, chronic care clinics, sick call screenings/triage, medication administration, patient education, and basic life supporting/emergency care.
- Document all pertinent information into the health record while practicing confidentiality and interfacing with other departments on an as-needed basis.
- Registered Nurses possess the ability to delegate tasks and work load and work hours, days, and locations as assigned.
- Registered Nurses are capable and available to provide coverage as needed to meet institutional needs.
- To provide evidence-based nursing care and promote continued competence through education/certification with a focus on correctional nursing.
Organizational Objective :
- Provide total health care to offenders (routine, chronic and emergency care), maintaining continuity of care from admission to discharge.
- Safe medication administration following DOC policy.
- Provide employee health services in accordance with policy.
- ACA standards of care, Health Services guidelines and policies, Operational policies and procedures are followed.
Qualifications:
- Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing program.
- Must possess and maintain a valid unrestricted Virginia RN license issued by the board of nursing or a multi-state compact license (if you are a recent graduate of a nursing program in VA and not licensed, the NCLEX-RN exam must be scheduled at the time of application).
- Certified Basic Life Support (BLS) for health care providers with current certification through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) is required upon hire
Additional Considerations:
- Experience working in a Corrections or Law enforcement environment.
- Previous experience working with mental health patients.
- Experience in acute care and/or community health settings.
Syra Health Corp is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.
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