Registered Nurse (RN)
New Castle, Delaware
Posted Jul 21
- Shift
- Nights
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Nights
- Orientation
- 4-week orientation
- Term
- Per Diem
- Setting
- Correctional
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Shift differential
- +$3.50/hr
About this role
Registered Nurse position at VitalCore Health Strategies (VCHS) providing correctional health care at Baylor Women's Correctional Institution in New Castle, DE. Full-Time Day Shift, Night Shift, and PRN available. The RN delivers quality care within scope of practice, delegates nursing activities, ensures safe environment, acts as patient advocate, and promotes best practices. Essential functions include administering medications, monitoring patients, maintaining records, coordinating with healthcare team, and supervising less-skilled personnel.
Sourced from a public job board.
Requirements
- RN
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of employment. Possesses an active CPR certification. Remains knowledgeable about specific state laws and regulations governing practice. Satisfactory completion of initial and annual clinical competencies to demonstrate aptitude as assigned by role.
Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term/Long-Term Disability
Place
- City
- New Castle, Delaware
- Median rent
- $1,739/mo
- Local household income
- $89,205/yr
- State price level
- about the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Delaware index 99.8, where 100 is the national average.
New Castle is a small, historic riverside town south of Wilmington along the Delaware River. Nurses enjoy a quieter pace with easy access to hospital systems in nearby Wilmington and the broader Philadelphia metro region.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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You would be nursing inside Delaware’s correctional system under VitalCore, even though the postings say VitalCare Medical Practice. The day-to-day sites are Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution in New Castle and Howard R. Young in Wilmington, with full-time, part-time, and PRN…
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- What preceptor time and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
