Registered Nurse 2- WCCW
State of WashingtonAbout the role
Posting number: HS-WCCW-2026-05006
Department: Dept. of Corrections
Division: HS - WCCW
Job classification: REGISTERED NURSE 2
Posting type: Open & Promotional
Categories: Health Sciences
Summary
Fulltime, Permanent
Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW)
Registered Nurse 2:
Monthly Salary Range: $7,832.00-$12,839.00
Hourly Salary Range: $45.01-$73.79
Join the Department of Corrections (DOC) team to make a real difference in the lives of others and to find personal fulfillment in your role. DOC is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Registered Nurse for the Washington Corrections Center for Women located in Gig Harbor, WA.
Registered Nurses will receive shift differential in the amount of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per hour for evening shift and night shift work. Employees may also qualify for one or both of these supplemental shift premiums in addition to the above. A. One dollar ($1.00) per hour during any hours assigned to work from 11:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. B. Three dollars ($3.00) per hour during any hours worked from Friday midnight to Sunday midnight.
Application assessment will be ongoing, and the hiring authority reserves the right to offer the position at any time during the recruitment process. It is to the applicant's advantage to apply as early as possible.
This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacant positions.
Examples of duties
Practice nursing safely and effectively in the correctional setting and within the scope of practice defined by state law and administrative code:
- Access, monitor, and interpret objective and subjective data.
- Develop nursing diagnoses and outcomes to be achieved as a result of nursing intervention.
- Plan the delivery of health care, defining timeframes and pathways for delivery of services, prioritizing and sequencing care.
- Implement care plans by providing direct patient care, directing others about urgency, timeframes, and methods to deliver health care on and off site, determining when needs for care or services become more urgent, require classification, or require another type of level of intervention. Obtain provider orders and accomplish prescribed interventions in a timely and clinically responsive manner.
- Analyze and evaluate the structure, process, and timeframes for service delivery, the expected effects of treatment or intervention, and the outcomes to be achieved. Revise the plan of care as necessary.
- In accordance with the intent and provisions of established policies, practices, and procedures, employ appropriate safety techniques to push, pull, life, and carry loads.
Delegate and assign tasks to other staff as appropriate:
- Delegate responsibility for patient care to other nurse and assistive nursing personnel after considering the needs, condition, and stability of the patient, potential for harm, complexity of task and predictability of outcome.
- Teach, instruct, monitor, supervise, and evaluate the impleme
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