$8,703 - $10,373 yearly
Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga
Coalinga, CA, USA
This is the entry and journey level. Under general supervision, incumbents administer nursing care to forensic clients, patients, or inmates at developmental centers, State hospitals, and correctional facilities contracting with the Department of Mental Health; assist in planning and evaluating nursing care of assigned forensic clients, patients, or inmates; assist in directing and training other nursing service personnel; and perform other related nursing tasks. At the journey level, incumbents provide direction to unit or clinic personnel in general or specialized nursing work and provide for continuity of forensic client, patient, or inmate care with nursing personnel of other shifts. Incumbents at the journey level may also be responsible for directing the work of other employees during an eight-hour shift of an organized nursing unit and relieving the supervisor as required.
Custody tasks include counting, distributing, and collecting eating utensils; monitoring forensic...