Registered NurseCorrectional Health Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a highly motivated, qualified individual to work as a
Registered Nurse in the Correctional Health Services Division. If you would like an opportunity to join a team of passionate individuals who work hard in providing quality medical care, this is the job for you.
************************NEW SIGN ON $6,000 BONUS IS NOW AVAILABLE*********************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
Why you Should Join Our Team:
As a benefited employee of the Department of Health and Human Services, you will receive great health and retirement benefits. Click here to view a summary of the benefits we offer. We also provide generous paid time off so you can spend more time with family and friends and have a positive work-life balance.
The Agency:
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here.- Restores and promotes patients’ health by completing the nursing process.
- Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
- Provides physical and psychological support to patients
- Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and hospital or regulatory standards.
- Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Maintains a 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 and department 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 equipment operation 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 health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Licensure as a registered nurse (RN) in the state of Utah or met the conditions of the possible Temporary Nurse Apprentice.
- Ability to observe details at close range and at a distance.
- Ability to observe physical conditions, behavior or surroundings for potential areas of concern or inappropriate activity.
- Ability to hear sounds that may indicate potential areas of concern or inappropriate activity.
- Have at least 1 years worth of experience working as a Registered nurse.
- Risks which require the use of special safety precautions and/or equipment, e.g., working around operating machines, working with contagious diseases or hazardous chemicals, etc..
- Work requires physical exertion. May require the ability to stand; walk over rough surfaces; bend, crouch, stoop, stretch, reach, lift moderately heavy items (up to 50 lbs.) in a recurring manner and/or for long periods of time.
- The successful candidate must submit to a pre-employment drug test.
