Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Prattville, Alabama
Posted Sep 4
- Shift
- Rotating
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Rotating Weekends
- Weekends
- Weekends required
- Term
- Per Diem
- Setting
- Correctional
- Accepts
- LPN
- Patients
- Our team oversees the day-to-day healthcare operations in facilities with inmate populations ranging from 25 to nearly 2,000 inmates.
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in Alabama is $32/hr, across 85 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Join the TK Health team providing patient care where the need is highest. We are a correctional healthcare provider with a regional focus on our clinics in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin Jails and Detention Centers. Our team oversees the day-to-day healthcare operations in facilities with inmate populations ranging from 25 to nearly 2,000 inmates. Our medical staff are afforded the opportunity to utilize their medical skills to their fullest capacity in a safe, secure, and unconventional environment.
All offers of employment with TK Health are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.
Location: Autauga County Jail, Prattville AL
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
- PRN
- Rotating Weekends
- Vaccines not mandatory
The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is responsible for rendering nursing care in assigned area in terms of individualized client needs, according to dependent and independent nursing functions and conformance with recognized nursing techniques, procedures, and established standards based on the scope of practical nursing, under the direction/delegation of the registered nurse.
Qualifications
- Valid, unrestricted LPN license
- Current CPR
- Ability to pass a background check
Sourced from TK Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- Valid, unrestricted LPN license
- Current CPR
- Ability to pass a background check
Place
- City
- Prattville, Alabama
- Median rent
- $1,313/mo
- Local household income
- $81,337/yr
- State price level
- 11% below the national average
- Campus
- Autauga County Jail
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Alabama index 88.8, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities.
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