Location: Herlong, CA
Job Title: Corrections Registered Nurse (RN)
Contract Term: ASAP - 9/30/2026
Shifts: 8 hours/5 days a week or 10 hours/4 days a week depending on need
Pay Package: $2,200-3,200/week including weekly stipend for travelers DOE
Wesley Medical Staffing is currently seeking Registered Nurses (RNs) for contract Correctional RN positions in Herlong, CA.
Contract Corrections Registered Nurse (RN) Responsibilities:
- Provide direct patient care services in accordance with legal, ethical, and institutional standards through the evaluation of patients and therapeutic treatment as ordered by Health Services clinical staff
- Perform nursing duties within the scope of the current licensure
- Administer medications as prescribed i.e., by mouth, intradermal, subcutaneously, or intramuscularly
- Assist with distribution of medications at pill line
- Monitor and evaluate the response to therapy
- Perform skin testing
- Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for the inmate
- Take medical histories, examine patients, and order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays
- Perform venipuncture for the purpose of obtaining laboratory specimens
- Maintain accurate logs of all reports in accordance with Bureau of Prisons and AAAHC/JC policy. Screen laboratory tests/results for normal/abnormal lab values and notify the physician or physicians.
- Ensure all sharps are secured, accounted for, stored and disposed of according to institutional and national policy
- Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality
- Adhere to infection control policies and procedures
- Ability and skill to operate EKG
- Clinically manage injuries by splinting, and immobilizing
- Attend to medical emergencies
- Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plans
- Assists in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of the health care services
- Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional, or mental problems
- Manages the daily operation of the clinic and conducts daily sick call; which may include securing health histories from the patient, recording findings and providing clinical evaluations
- Provides a wide range of emergency services, in the absence of the physician
- Perform duties as required but accept only those nursing assignments that are commensurate with his/her educational preparation, training, experience, and licensure laws.
- Assist with all aspects of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Program, within the scope of practice of current licensure.
Corrections Registered Nurse (RN) Requirements:
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing
- Must have an active nursing license in the state of Nevada or California
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN), ideally in Corrections
- Must have current Basic Life Support Certification
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