The Correctional RN works in collaboration with other healthcare professionals, correctional officers, and administrators to ensure the well-being of the incarcerated population. The Correctional RN utilizes their knowledge to address the specific challenges and limitations of the correctional environment while providing care to their patient population. This care includes both routine and emergency health care in a correctional facility setting.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**

+ Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
+ Performs focused interview to identify specific patient's needs
+ Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition
+ Conducts health histories on newly-admitted inmates
+ When necessary, makes referrals of inmates to the staff physician, nurse practitioner, dentist, or mental health professional
+ Determines the need for emergenc...