DZEEL CLINICAL
This position provides nursing services to juvenile offenders and function as the full-time healthcare professional on site.
Responsibilities:
- Providing healthcare in the treatment and / or prevention of illnesses and injuries
- Performing the juveniles’ admission physical assessments
- Conducting sick call
- Administering medications
- Implementing physician treatment orders
- Providing medication administration, training UAPs for medication administration and medication counseling for the juveniles
- Writing medical discharge summaries
- Providing emergency medical services
- Healthcare reports to other disciplines regarding juvenile health status, maintain data reports and providing health related staff training
Requirements:
- Restores and promotes patient’s health by completing the nursing process
- Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members
- Provides physical and psychological support to patients
- Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients
- Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and regulatory standards
- Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient records
- Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs
- Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential
- Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; and evaluating new equipment and techniques
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among healthcare teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Registered Nurse Qualifications / Skills:
- Clinical skills
- Bedside manner
- Infection control
- Physiological knowledge
- Administering medication
- Medical teamwork
- Multitasking, listening, and verbal communication
- Health promotion and maintenance
Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Active applicable state licensure
- American Heart Association issued BLS and ACLS
- Clean background check and clean drug screen