Charge Nurse - Eastern Region

COO - Health Services Charge Nurse (S) This is a Charge/Float Registered Nurse position and will primarily provide staffing coverage based on the need throughout Bertie, Craven, Hyde Pasquotank, Roanoke River, and Tyrrell Prison Work Farm facilities. The Float Nurse provides professional nursing in the care, treatment, observation, and counsel of offenders in accordance with standard nursing practice and theory, agency regulations, physicians' orders, and instructions from higher level nursing staff. Position duties include clinical responsibilities, which covers the whole spectrum of assessment and intervention necessary to maintain maximum function and to promote well-being and are inclusive of, but not limited to, sick call/assessment, assisting the physician, carrying out orders, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, responding to emergencies, facilitating mental and dental health care, preparing medication for administration and administering medications, monitoring for communicable diseases, conducting Chronic Disease Clinics, updating physical examinations, teaching, delegating to or supervising other personnel in implementing the treatment regimen. Position may supervise subordinate staff. This is a floating position and will provide staffing coverage based on the need throughout facilities.