Job Description
This role treats minor injuries and promotes health for youths at Job Corps, ensuring quick recovery without hospital trips. Nurses handle first aid, administer medications, and maintain records on health issues. They triage complaints, take vital signs, and support physicians provide overall care, preventing accidents through education.
Management & Training Corporation runs the Clearfield Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah, focusing on youth services including health promotion. Staff work with local communities to deliver preventive programs like tuberculosis cessation and weight control.
Work involves rendering first aid, cleansing wounds, operating emergency equipment, and performing lab tests with standards. Nurses monitor infirmary patients, chart vitals, assist with deliveries, and control diseases. Tools include computerized records, lab equipment, and wheelchairs for transport. Balancing on-call shifts without nights, weekends, or holidays is a key constraint. Interactions are with physicians, mid-level providers, and wellness staff.
Compensation is $32.00 per hour. Full-time days at Clearfield Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah. Includes rotating on-call. No weekends, nights, or holidays. Benefits: medical, vision, dental, and prescription drug insurance, life insurance, 401(k), short- and long-term disability, employee assistance program, bereavement, civic duty, and military leave, paid time off, and holiday pay.
Responsibilities
- Render first aid treatment and assist physician in treating serious accidents or illnesses
- Treat minor injuries and illness according to physician instructions and maintain student health records
- Cleanse and dress wounds, operate emergency equipment and provide follow-up nursing care
- Prepare and administer specified medications and drugs and assist in developing programs to prevent diseases and accidents
- Perform routine lab tests in accordance with approved standards
- Monitor students restricted to the infirmary
- Assist in managing pregnancy, weight control, tuberculosis, smoking cessation, and other designed programs
- Triage, assess chief complaints, take vital signs, do appropriate charting and assist with chart review duties and with patient care
- Assist physician or mid-level health care provider when needed
- Demonstrate appropriate professional behavior
Requirements
- Active, unrestricted registered nurse license in the state of employment
- Experience working with youth in a paid or unpaid capacity preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
- Computer proficiency required
- Valid driver's license with acceptable record