Nurse Practitioner (Statewide) Part- or Full-time opportunities

About the role

The Oregon Department of Corrections seeks a Nurse Practitioner to provide high-quality, patient-centered care in a correctional health setting. This role serves individuals involved in the criminal justice system, addressing health disparities and improving community health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive patient treatment plans
• Manage infections, sprains, and uncomplicated fractures
• Suture wounds not involving major vessels, nerves, or tendons
• Recommend appropriate food supplements, over-the-counter medications, and prescribe antibiotics and other authorized drugs
• Refer cases beyond your diagnostic or therapeutic scope to physicians or healthcare specialists
• Collaborate actively within a network of medical professionals, ensuring consistent and high-quality care coordination

Requirements

• A current Nurse Practitioner’s license (APRN-NP) (FNP) and Registered Nurse license issued by the Oregon State Board of Nursing
• Knowledge of advanced primary care principles, methods, and evidence-based clinical guidelines
• Standards of professional nurse practitioner practice, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical decision-making
• Management of chronic and acute health conditions commonly encountered in correctional health
• Trauma-informed care, patient confidentiality requirements, and ethical considerations specific to correctional health services
• Performing comprehensive physical assessments, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, and formulating differential diagnoses
• Delivering patient-centered, trauma-informed primary care within a secure and fast-paced clinical environment
• Responding effectively to urgent and emergent medical situations, including coordination with custody staff and emergency medical services
• Exercising clinical judgment, prioritizing competing demands, and making appropriate referrals to specialty, mental health, or higher-level care
• Documenting clinical encounters accurately and efficiently using an electronic health record system
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team to support continuity of care and population-based health initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications include a current Nurse Practitioner’s license (APRN-NP) (FNP) and Registered Nurse license issued by the Oregon State Board of Nursing
• Knowledge of advanced primary care principles, methods, and evidence-based clinical guidelines
• Standards of professional nurse practitioner practice, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical decision-making
• Management of chronic and acute health conditions commonly encountered in correctional health
• Trauma-informed care, patient confidentiality requirements, and ethical considerations specific to correctional health services
• Performing comprehensive physical assessments, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, and formulating differential diagnoses
• Delivering patient-centered, trauma-informed primary care within a secure and fast-paced clinical environment
• Responding effectively to urgent and emergent medical situations, including coordination with custody staff and emergency medical services
• Exercising clinical judgment, prioritizing competing demands, and making appropriate referrals to specialty, mental health, or higher-level care
• Documenting clinical encounters accurately and efficiently using an electronic health record system
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team to support continuity of care and population-based health initiatives