Being a nurse at CCA will be a healing experience.
Ironically, many nurses need some care themselves. They are quite stressed because they’ve been caught up in a healthcare system that seems to keep them from doing what they originally entered the field to do: give patients the best possible care.
As a nurse at CCA, you’ll have the opportunity to do exactly that, and be compensated with an excellent salary and a comprehensive benefits package. All that in a clean, safe, secure, bright, organized, clinic-like environment.
At CCA, we relieve you of many of the stress-causing situations you find in other healthcare settings. First of all, acute care is rare and short-term. Secondly, though we certainly have performance standards, there simply isn’t the constant pressure to move quickly from patient to patient. Also, you won’t have to manage bed pans or other routine tasks.
On the other hand, there are many benefits to a nursing career at CCA versus other settings, such as predictable, flexible hours, little, if any, overtime or on-call time, autonomy, continuing education, opportunity for advancement, appreciative patients, a supportive, family-like working environment, and working for a growth-oriented, highly-respected, national, publicly-traded organization.
A nursing career at CCA is a terrific opportunity to get back to the basics of what brought you to the field in the first place: the ability to make a real difference in the lives of your patients.
Types of Services
CCA provides health care services to male and female inmates and youthful offenders who are housed in local jails, detention facilities, and correctional institutions around the country. Depending on the type of correctional facility, the length of stay of patients that you’ll encounter ranges from a few hours to several years, which provides special opportunities to nurses who choose to work in corrections.
Greater Autonomy, Interdisciplinary Teams
Your career with CCA will involve adult ambulatory and clinical care using the highest nursing standards. And, due to the unique setting, you’ll practice with greater autonomy than your community-based counterparts. In fact, you’ll be a practitioner, leader, and educator. Plus, you’ll work together with dental and mental health professionals and physicians in true interdisciplinary care teams. As a team, you’ll decide on a course of treatment and then provide it.
Orientation and Training
If you’re new to correctional healthcare, don’t worry. Our nurses find that their skills transfer well to the correctional facility environment which offers the opportunity to use many skills not used in the hospital or community setting. CCA provides complete and specific training and orientation programs so that you’ll enter this specialty with confidence.
Corrections healthcare is a career path less traveled, but one that, in fact, offers professional growth opportunities equal to, and in many cases, above and beyond traditional community care settings.