Travel Registered Nurse - Correctional - $2,200 per week

GQR Healthcare
  • Downey, CA
  • $25 Per Hour
1 day ago

Job Description

GQR Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse Correctional for a travel nursing job in Downey, California.

Job Description & Requirements

  • Specialty: Correctional
  • Discipline: RN
  • Start Date: 10/16/2026
  • Duration: 16 weeks
  • 40 hours per week
  • Shift: 8 hours, evenings
  • Employment Type: Travel

Behavioral Health RN – Mids

 

Downey, CA

 

Looking for an experienced Behavioral Health RN for a 16-week assignment working mid shifts in a secure juvenile behavioral health setting.

Assignment Details

  • Start Date: 10/16/2026
  • Contract: 16 weeks
  • Schedule: 5 × 8-hour shifts
  • Shift: Mids | 2:00 PM–10:30 PM
  • Hours: 40 hours/week
  • Weekend: Every other weekend required
  • RTO: Maximum 3 days; none preferred
  • On-Call: No
  • Local Travelers: Accepted
  • Travel Experience: Preferred, but not required
  • EMR: Cerner

Requirements

  • Active California RN license
  • 2+ years of psychiatric inpatient experience required
  • MAB/CPI certification required
  • BLS required
  • LA County Fire Card required
  • COVID vaccination + booster (if eligible) required
  • Must be comfortable with:
    • Blood draws
    • Passing medications
    • Patient assessments
    • Triage
  • Candidates must have Psych or Correctional Health experience
  • Experience in a detention center, jail, locked behavioral health unit, or other secured environment is preferred
  • Recent experience (within the last 1–2 years) in Med Surg, ER, Psych, or Correctional Health is strongly preferred

Pay

Estimated Weekly Gross: $2,200/week

  • Taxable: $25/hr × 40 hours = $1,000/week
  • Meals per diem: $1,200/week
  • OT: $37.50/hr
  • Lodging: $0

Weekly estimate is based on 40 hours/week.

Schedule & Environment

This position requires every other weekend and is an 8-hour-shift-only assignment. Nurses must be comfortable working in a secure juvenile behavioral health environment and performing hands-on clinical duties, including medication administration, blood draws, assessments, and triage.

 

Interested? Apply today!

About GQR Healthcare

GQR’s Healthcare team specializes in connecting experts within the industry to highly skilled healthcare professionals across the US market.

In the competitive healthcare market, we recognize that the industry’s common goals of improved quality of care and patient outcomes are wholly reliant upon the professionals directly supporting these initiatives. Leveraging our extensive candidate network, we deliver continuity of care for the communities our partners serve to ensure the patient experience is of the highest quality.

Through deep market specialization and a unique approach to talent acquisition, GQR Healthcare provides an unparalleled and personalized experience across all medical specialties in nursing and within diverse healthcare platforms across the industry.

Numbers & Facts

LocationDowney, CA

Skills

  • Behavioral Healthunmatched
  • Cernerunmatched
  • Correctional Healthunmatched
  • Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
  • Healthcareunmatched
  • Medication Administrationunmatched
  • Medicationsunmatched
  • Nursingunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Patient Assessmentunmatched
  • Patient Careunmatched
  • Phlebotomyunmatched
  • Psychiatry and Mental Healthunmatched
  • Quality Managementunmatched
  • Quality of Careunmatched
  • Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
  • Registered Training Organisation (RTO)unmatched

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