Corrections Registered Nurse (RN)
Part-timeAvenel, NJContract / Part-time$58/hrPosted 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Corrections Registered Nurse works with healthcare professionals, correctional officers, and administrators to support the well-being of incarcerated people. The role provides routine and emergency healthcare in a correctional facility and applies nursing knowledge to the challenges and limitations of the correctional environment.
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Full job description
Corrections Registered Nurse (RN)
Setting: Corrections
Job Type: Contract - Part Time
Pay: $58 / Hour
Hours: 24.00
Location: Avenel, NJ
The Correctional RN works in collaboration with other healthcare professionals, correctional officers, and administrators to ensure the well-being of the incarcerated population. The Correctional RN utilizes their knowledge to address the specific challenges and limitations of the correctional environment while providing care to their patient population. This care includes both routine and emergency health care in a correctional facility setting.
Minimum Requirements:
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Current Registered Nurse License for the state in which thenurse practices
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Minimum of one year of correctional health care experiencepreferred
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CCHP-RN Certification preferred
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Current Health certificate (per contract or stateregulation)
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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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Must meet all federal, state and local requirements
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Must be at least 18 years of age
Benefits
At Amergis, we firmly believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our organization and we are happy to offer the following benefits:
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Competitive pay & weekly paychecks
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Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
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401(k) savings plan
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Awards and recognition programs
*Benefit eligibility is dependent on employment status.
About Amergis
Amergis, formerly known as Maxim Healthcare Staffing, has served our clients and communities by connecting people to the work that matters since 1988. We provide meaningful opportunities to our extensive network of healthcare and school-based professionals, ready to work in any hospital, government facility, or school. Through partnership and innovation, Amergis creates unmatched staffing experiences to deliver the best workforce solutions.
Amergis is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Category: Nursing
Job Function: Nursing | RN | RN - Corrections
Job Type: Contract - Part Time
Setting: Corrections
Position Type: Healthcare
Office Number: 0354
Contract Duration: 13
Pay Rate: $58 / Hour
Date Posted: 2026-11-10
How this job compares
Set against the 28,914 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$58/hr
- New Jersey median$33–41/hr407 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr12,866 hourly ranges
This rate, $58/hr, is 49% above the New Jersey median midpoint ($39/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 670 open Nurse jobs in New Jersey and 28,914 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Hackensack Meridian Health97 open
- Atlantic Health System85 open
- BAYADA Home Health Care68 open
- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (12,048 postings).
- Education
- 3,109 of the 28,914 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Nurse jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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