Nurse 1 (Registered Nurse) - 20026505

What You'll Do

• Administers medication (e.g., oral, intramuscular, and intravenous)
• Maintains patient medication compliance
• Performs treatments and assists with sick calls
• Manages chronic care clinics
• Responds to emergencies, providing emergency care and CPR
• Conducts subjective and objective assessments of patients
• Collects vital signs and documents findings promptly
• Captures urine and other bodily fluid specimens
• Prepares patients for release or transfer to other facilities
• Ensures discharge medication orders are completed and forwarded to pharmacy
• Participates in work-related training and institution exercises
• Assists other healthcare staff
• Investigates and documents problem areas or concerns
• Reviews shift reports from preceding shifts
• Assists physicians with medical procedures
• Assumes duties of other nurses during absences
• Counsels patients on healthcare maintenance and disease prevention
• Participates in quality assurance activities
• Trains and directs new nurses, agency nurses, LPNs, and hospital aides
• Serves as a resource for other healthcare and security staff
• Provides orientation and training for new healthcare personnel
• Serves as lead clinical authority on site in absence of HCA, QIC, medical director, or advanced providers
• Participates in group programming and health/wellness initiatives
• Performs administrative duties as needed
• Attends meetings
• Schedules multidisciplinary team meetings
• Assumes shift charge duties as assigned by the HCA
• Assists ancillary staff as needed to meet patient care needs

Pay and Benefits

Starting pay is approximately $95,000 based on location/shift assignments.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), which took effect January 1, 2023. This allows an RN to hold one multistate license (MSL) in their primary state of residence while practicing virtually or over state lines in 37 other compact states across the country.

The DRC is a “qualifying employer” for the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program.

Requirements

Requires current licensure as a registered professional nurse in the state of Ohio as issued by the Board of Nursing per Section 4723.03 of Ohio Revised Code.

Skills

• Nursing
• Urgent and Emergency Care
• Basic Medical Procedures
• Medical Charting
• Direct Support/Direct Care
• Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Teamwork
• Cultural Awareness