Registered Nurse - Dayshift

Salary: $26.90 - $40.43 Hourly

Location : Salt Lake County, UT

Job Type: Full Time

Job Number: 41817

Agency: 250 Health & Human Services

Unit: 1562 DHHS CCS DIRECT MEDICAL CARE

Opening Date: 06/25/2024

Closing Date: Continuous

FLSA: Exempt

Recruiter: Taylor Dallinga - ***

# of Openings: 2

Background Check: You must successfully pass a criminal history check.

Location: Utah State PrisonCorrectional Health Services Division1480 North 8000 WestSalt Lake City, UT 84116

Schedule Code: B - Competitive Career Service - Employment in this position requires a probationary period.

Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package. See benefits tab below for details.

EEO Statement: The State of Utah is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. For accommodations, dial 711 or TTY: ***.



The Utah Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a highly motivated, qualified individual to work as a Registered Nurse in the Correctional Health Services Division. If you would like an opportunity to join a team of passionate individuals who work hard in providing quality medical care, this is the job for you.

Registered Nurses in this working level job perform a full range of nursing tasks in a variety of settings and with a variety of patient groups, care providers and/or facilities. Exercise independent professional discretion based on licensure in general duty settings, clinical nursing settings and/or in public health programs.

Registered Nurse Qualifications/Skills:

• Clinical skills
  
• Bedside manner
  
• Infection control
  
• Physiological knowledge
  
• Administering medication
  
• Medical teamwork
  
• Multitasking, listening, and verbal communication
  
• Health promotion and maintenance

• Provides direct and/or indirect patient care oriented toward improving or maintaining health and preventing illness.
• Coordinates clinical activities and follow-up.
• Provides medical consultation in specialized areas of knowledge.
• Provides clients with information concerning rights, options, benefits, services, goals and expectations.
• Adapts program(s) to meet specific needs or concerns.
• Maintains and updates patient charts, records, and information.
• Develops or modifies rules, policies, or standards, etc.

• The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
• The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
• The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
• The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.
• The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
• The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• The ability to see details at a distance.
• The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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