RN - Correctional Health - Days
Fort Worth, Texas
- Shift
- Days
- Unit
- Correctional Health
Posted Jul 17 · Not open to new grads
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Days
- Orientation
- Residency program
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Correctional
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 10+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Similar roles post
- Similar TX staff roles post $33/hr to $47/hr
TX staff postings that state pay run $25/hr to $60/hr, the middle half $33/hr to $47/hr, across 910 postings.
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About this role
The Registered Nurse assesses, plans, directs, implements, and assists to provide quality patient care for assigned patients in a corrections facility medical clinic. Essential functions include patient assessment, care plan implementation, medication administration, discharge planning, patient education, monitoring changes in patient condition, documenting in medical records, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and coordinating patient transfers in accordance with EMTALA regulations.
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Requirements
- RN License
- BLS Certification
- Nursing Diploma from an Accredited Diploma Program or Associate Degree in Nursing
- Background check
- Entry level, under 1 year experience
- Corrections facility medical clinic experience
Place
- City
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Median rent
- $1,509/mo
- Local household income
- $79,507/yr
- Metro price level
- 3% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Fort Worth area index 103.1, where 100 is the national average.
Fort Worth runs about 3% above the national cost-of-living average, but that buys genuine Texas texture: longhorn cattle drives down Exchange Avenue in the Stockyards, shaded miles along the Trinity Trails, and Sundance Square's live-music corners near Southside's medical district. This is where scrub-life and boot-life share the same ZIP code.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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