Nurse Practitioner/ APRN

POSITION: Nurse Practitioner/ APRN

SCHEDULE: Full Time 30 or 40 hours per week (10-hour days)

FACILITY: Northern NH Correctional Facility

LOCATION: Berlin, NH

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation's largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.

**Guaranteed salary or hourly rate (W2 or 1099 status available)
**No nights or weekends
**No insurance authorizations
**Patient and medicine focused

BENEFITS

• Annual review with performance increase
• Generous paid-time off program that combines vacation and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Comprehensive health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Dental and Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement saving plans
• Company-paid short-term disability Healthcare and dependent care spending account

POSITION SUMMARY

• Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
• Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
• Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
• Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
• Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
• Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
• Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines. Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

LICENSURE:

• New Hampshire Advanced Practice Registered Nurse license/ NP certification required at start date
• New Hampshire DEA required at start date

CERTIFICATION:

• Current CPR certification required at start date

EDUCATION: Graduate of college/university Advanced Practice Registered Nurse program

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 1-2 years clinical experience preferred.

EOE/M/F/D/V

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