Corrections Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Enfield, CTContract / Full-time$100/hrPosted 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Corrections Nurse Practitioner provides health care services to incarcerated individuals within the scope of their license. The role includes physical examinations, diagnostic testing, assessments and health screenings, prescribing medications, and educating inmates on health prevention and promotion, medical conditions, and treatment.
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Full job description
The Nurse Practitioner in the correctional setting provides health care services to incarcerated individuals within the scope of their license. The Nurse Practitioner performs physical examinations, diagnostic testing, assessments/health screenings, prescribes medications, and educates inmates on health prevention/promotion, medical conditions, and treatment.
Minimum Requirements:
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Current Nurse Practitioner Certification and license in thestate of practice required
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Certification as a Nurse Practitioner by a nationallyaccredited nursing organization (e.g. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners –AANP, American Nurses Credentialing Center – ANCC) is preferred
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Specialty Certification as per client request and or stateregulations if applicable
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One year experience as an NP preferred
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One year of correctional experience preferred
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Maintain collaboration agreements, per state requirements
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Complies with all relevant professional standards ofpractice
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Current CPR if applicable
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TB questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable
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Current Health certificate (per contract or stateregulation)
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Must meet all federal, state and local requirements
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Must be at least 18 years of age
Job Category: Advanced Practitioner
Job Function: Advanced Practitioner | NP | NP - Corrections
Job Type: Contract - Full Time
Setting: Healthcare Facilities
Position Type: Healthcare
Office Number: 0727
Contract Duration: 13
Pay Rate: $100 / Hour
Date Posted: 2026-11-02
How this job compares
Set against the 10,061 open Nurse Practitioner jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100/hr
- Connecticut median$50–99/hr28 hourly ranges
- US median$46–85/hr2,536 hourly ranges
This rate, $100/hr, is 38% above the Connecticut median midpoint ($73/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse Practitioner hourly ranges in Connecticut.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 148 open Nurse Practitioner jobs in Connecticut and 10,061 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Connecticut
- Hartford HealthCare69 open
- CVS Health27 open
- UnitedHealth Group11 open
- Experience
- Nurse Practitioner postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (2,971 postings).
- Education
- 3,620 of the 10,061 open Nurse Practitioner jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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