Location: United States Penitentiary (USP) Atwater. (This is a federal corrections setting).
Payrate: $41.91 per hour.
Benefits:- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- 401k
- 11 paid federal holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid vacation.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm (40 hours per week). Must be available to work one weekend a month when needed.
Requirements:- Graduate of an accredited LVN program.
- LVN license in the state of California.
- BLS.
Duties:All duties will be performed in accordance with standards and methods generally accepted within the contractor's field of expertise. Provision of professional Licensed Vocational /Practical Nurse services to the inmate population, as follows:
- Evaluation of patients and provision of therapeutic treatment as ordered by Health Services clinical staff.
- Administers medications as prescribed or ordered for the patients, including immunizing agents and performs skin testing. Perform venipuncture and administer and withdraw intravenous fluids.
- Counseling patients as needed regarding diagnosis.
- Securing a health history from the inmate patient and recording findings in the medical record.
- Recording diagnostic testing, i.e., venipuncture for laboratory studies, visual acuity testing, electrocardiogram (EKG), assisting with x-ray procedures, including positioning and prep of patient, per instructions from the health care providers (Mid-Level Practitioner, X-ray Technologist, or Physician)
- Processes lab work and/or filing on a daily basis and keeps accurate logs of all reports in accordance with Bureau of Prisons, and JCAHO policy. Screen clinical laboratory tests and results, discriminates between normal and abnormal lab values, and notifies the Physician, or Mid-Level Practitioner.
- Ensure all sharps are secured, accounted for, stored, and disposed of according to institutional and national policy.
- Assist the Physician and Mid-Level Practitioners in the management and oversight of chronic care clinics. Possess basic knowledge of treatment of chronic health problems such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma.
- Review clinical records to ensure data is entered legibly and in the appropriate section of the medical record.
- Knowledge of optometry to screen for distance and near vision, and color blindness.
- Ability and skill to operate EKG, hearing test, Clinitek equipment, and other laboratory equipment.
- Knowledge of mental health disorders and the ability to screen for gross mood changes.
- Ability to provide basic first aid, preventive care guidance in treating a variety of common illnesses/injuries.
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