Posting Summary

Rutgers University Correctional Health Care is seeking a Part Time Staff Nurse for the Midstate Correctional Facility, located in Wrightstown, NJ. The Staff Nurse utilizes the nursing process to meet a variety of health care needs with ambulatory care as a primary focus for inmates in the New Jersey Department of Corrections.

Duties include:
* Provides direct and indirect nursing care to meet physiological, psychosocial and emotional needs of the resident-patient including adolescents (13-17 years), adults (18 to 64 years) and their family within the framework established by the correctional system.
* Performs assessments of resident-patient in a variety of settings such as initial intake area, health care unit for sick call, emergency situations in housing, chronic care clinics and infirmary.
* Works with a variety of health care professionals and security officers in a correctional environment.
* Identifies inmate-centered...