Registered Nurse (RN) - Temporary

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Registered Nurse (RN) - Temporary

Salary

$28.52 - $44.25 Hourly

Location

Cherokee - 51012 - Cherokee County, IA

Job Type

Temporary

Job Number

24-03578

Agency

406 Health & Human Services - Civil Commitment Unit - Cherokee

Opening Date

04/19/2024

Closing Date

5/19/2024 11:59 PM Central

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Point of Contact

Adam Benson, abenson@dhs.state.ia.us

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Job Description

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join the team at the Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) for a temporary appointment limited to less than 780 hours per fiscal year. This position has a variable, as needed schedule and opportunity for advancement, growth, and development.

Duties include staff education and training, patient education, Medication Aide-Certified training and observation, and providing general nursing care to a specific high-risk population. General nursing care includes direct acute and chronic nursing care, health promotion, disease prevention, health education strategies across the lifespan, treatment of patients through therapeutic activities, providing psychological support and direction, escorting patients, accurate documentation of patient behaviors and attitudes, medication ordering, and MAR completion. The RN will work mostly independently, with on-call personnel available.

CCUSO provides a secure, long-term, and highly structured setting to treat sexual offenders who have served their prison terms, but, in a separate civil trial, have been found likely to reoffend. The facility provides state-of-the-art treatment to patients to lower their risk of re-offending and to release them from confinement as quickly as possible. There is a full range of diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative services focused on addressing the conditions impacting a patient’s likelihood of re-offending.

Cherokee Highlights

CCUSO is located in Cherokee, a city of approximately 5,000 set in the beautiful Little Sioux River Valley in Northwest Iowa. Residents enjoy fishing and canoeing on the Little Sioux River which winds through town providing a backdrop to a well-developed parks and trails system. In addition, Cherokee has over 1,000 acres of land devoted to parks and outdoor activities like camping, hiking, and horseback riding. Cherokee is the home of the first accredited museum and planetarium in Iowa, Sandford Museum and Planetarium, established in 1951. Cherokee may be the smallest town in the world to have its own symphony orchestra! This 60-member orchestra has been referred to as the “best kept secret in Northwest Iowa.”

Cherokee is home to Western Iowa Tech Community College and 1 hour or less from other educational institutions including Morningside College, Northwestern College, Buena Vista University, and Dordt College. This quintessential Iowa town is 1 hour from Sioux City and 2 hours from Omaha. Check out these10 Reasons to Move to Iowa (https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/iowa/10-reasons-move-to-ia/) .

The State of Iowa is an EEO/AA Employer

HHS values those with “lived experience” and encourages adults who were fostered as youth, foster parents, and/or parents who were in the DHS system to apply. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply (Hearing and Speech Impaired – Relay Iowa 1-800-735-2942 TDD).

Our agency uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visitwww.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

This is a temporary non-merit position with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services - Civil Commitment Unit - Cherokee.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Iowa by the Iowa Board of Nursing or licensure as a Registered Nurse in accordance with the Nurse Licensure Compact Administrator's Agreement of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.

For additional information, please click on thislink to view the job description. (https://das.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/hr/documents/class_and_pay/JobClassDescriptions/RegisteredNurse-02020-82020.pdf)

Additional Qualification Requirements

More information regarding the Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators agreement of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing is available at theNurse Licensure Compact (https://nursing.iowa.gov/practice/nurse-licensure-compact)

Review the provisions of the statute that authorized the creation of the Nurse Licensure Compact at Chapter 152E, Iowa Code (http://search.legis.state.ia.us/NXT/gateway.dll/2009code/1/4524/5637/5915) .

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Agency

State of Iowa

Agency

406 Health & Human Services - Civil Commitment Unit - Cherokee

Address

1251 W Cedar Loop

Cherokee, Iowa, 51012

Website

http://dhs.iowa.gov/mhds/mental/in-patient/ccuso

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