Registered Nurse - PRN Float Pool - $60/HR
Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc.
Traverse City, MI
Health / Beauty / Fitness
Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Timely and accurately assess, plan, and deliver nursing care to patients
- Contact practitioner to obtain orders
- Administer prescribed medication, treatments and other tasks as ordered by the practitioner
- Provide emergency first aid care, when appropriate
- Check and record vital signs, peak flows, blood glucose checks, weight, and other diagnostic tests on-site, when appropriate
- Triage officer intake screenings for necessity and priority at sick call
- Collect and record data for statistical reporting on the CQI
- Record information in chronic clinic and outcome study documents as indicated
- Report reactions to treatments and medications, as well as changes in the patients’ emotional or physical condition
- Provide patient education on topics such as correctional facility’s policies and discharge planning
- Record care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms
- Collaborate and coordinate multiple medical services for diagnosis and treatment, as directed by the practitioner
- Maintain aseptic techniques and infection control precautions as required
- Maintain and demonstrate working knowledge of pharmacology, including drug reaction/overdose
- Maintain and demonstrate working knowledge of therapeutic diets and nutrition
- Maintain and demonstrate working knowledge of social and behavioral sciences, particularly as applied to the correctional institutional setting
- Recommend improved procedures, equipment, and supplies to your supervisor
- Notify supervisor of medical or security incidents
- Present/participate in in-service education sessions
- Perform duties within the scope of practice mandated by state and local standards
- Maintain patient confidentiality and HIPAA practices as required by government agencies
- Oversee and delegate duties as expected and allowed under the RN scope of practice
- May be directed to cover shifts at multiple correctional facilities
- May be asked to act as a back-up to the H.S.A/Site Manager
- May be asked to train new hires and coworkers
- Any and all other duties as assigned
- Active nursing license in the state in which services are to be provided, in good standing
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training
- Excellent documentation skills
- Knowledge of the RN scope of practice
About the company
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Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. (ACH) is the nation’s largest jail contract management company, managing contracts for health care teams and customized programs in a variety of correctional settings across 18 states. ACH has been awarded two Better Business Bureau Torch Awards for Ethics, honored at Music City's Community Choice Awards for having the Best Employee Recognition Program, and named “Best Hospital & Health Care Business of the Year” in the Global 100 Awards for 2025 and 2026. In 2025, ACH was also certified as a Great Place to Work for the 10th consecutive year. In 2025, ACH saved over $16.8 million in taxpayer dollars through bill scrubbing. From 2020 to 2025, over 102% of contracted nursing hours were met nationwide, and more than 131 patient lives were saved.
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