One of the Best-Kept Secrets in Health Care
Health care delivery in a correctional setting is challenging and rewarding. It offers fulfilling opportunities for health care providers to sharpen their clinical skills, utilize cutting-edge technology, and actively manage patients, free from many of the bureaucratic processes found in traditional health care settings
Qualifications and Responsibilities:
The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, under the supervision of the Physician, provides advanced nursing services and patient care in the facility's medical program.
Provides comprehensive nursing care to include, but not limited to, executing physician's orders, dispensing and administering medications and performing examinations and treatment of patients; performs a variety of procedures and treatments.
Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's clinical problems and health care needs.
Records physical findings, formulates prognosis based on patient's condition and discusses case with physician and other health professionals to prepare comprehensive patient care plan.
Recommends drugs and other forms of treatment within the scope of licensure.
Must have active Georgia license, DEA and BLS.
Salary: $100,000 - $175,000/yr
We offer a competitive salary with medical, dental, vision, PTO, holiday pay, 401(K), relocation and bonus structure.
About the Facility:
Coffee Correctional Center is located in Nicholls, GA. Nicholls is approximately 100 miles north of Jacksonville, FL and 100 miles east of Albany, GA.
Coffee Correctional Center houses approximately 1700 male Georgia Department of Corrections inmates. The facility’s clinic has a 24 hour a week nursing staff with a Medical department, Dental department and mental health department.
If you would like to discuss the Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant opportunity, please contact Tatia Hobbs at tatia.hobbs@corecivic.com