22nd Century Healthcare is seeking a Nurse Practitioner Correctional Psychiatry for a local contract job in Orient, Ohio.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Psychiatry
- Discipline: Nurse Practitioner
- Duration: 26 weeks
- 20 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days, rotating
- Employment Type: Local Contract
Part time role; Shift hours: 5 hours/day (8:00 AM - 1:00 PM); 4 days a week (Flexible)
Job Description
• Monitors progress of and intervenes in the course of chronic illnesses, using ODRC policies and protocols for guidance.
• Inoculates or vaccinates against communicable diseases & prescribes medications or administers treatment of acute and chronically ill patients & performs minor surgery as training & competency allows.
• Performs routine physical exams of patients to determine control or status of chronic conditions & diagnoses new conditions.
• Evaluates patients for the necessity of specialty referral consultations inside or outside the institution & reviews said consult reports for the recommendations, approving or disapproving accordingly.
• Orders & reviews the results of laboratory, x-ray, & other diagnostic testing as appropriate.
• With the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), facilitates the completion of medical reclassification & requests for non-formulary medications as necessary.
• Performs routine & emergency medical care of patients as scheduled.
• Examines, diagnoses & treats patients within scope of practice, as identified by the State of Ohio Nursing Board, as applicable.
• Conducts rounds on infirmary patients as deemed appropriate by the CMO.
• Writes up medical information gathered during patient interviews according to ODRC Office of Correctional Healthcare guidelines, policies, protocols & related American Correctional Association standards currently in practice, documenting all assessments & diagnostic impressions, as well as any other treatment plans & follow-up parameters.
• Cooperates with CMO medical quality oversight & accept suggestions, redirection, and guidance.
License/Certification
• Active Nurse Practitioner License for state of OH
• DEA Certificate
• Active BLS/CPR
About 22nd Century Healthcare
22nd Century Technologies Inc., (TSCTI) is one the fastest growing healthcare staffing companies in the United States. With presence in all 50 States and 6000+ employees nationwide, we have been providing unparallel healthcare and technology staffing services to Public and Private sectors for 25 years.
Started as a technology staffing company in 1997, we have significantly expanded our healthcare practice to both Clinical and Non-Clinical staffing, serving various facilities, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Our ISO certified staffing practices and technology driven staffing procedures – from recruitment to on boarding, along with an internal pre-vetted resume database of healthcare professionals, have enabled us to successfully deliver more than $40M of healthcare staffing services with over 600,000 hours of medical staffing in the last five years.