2. Provide direct and indirect nursing care to meet the psychological, psychosocial and emotional needs of inmates within the framework established by the correctional system; perform assessments of inmates in a variety of settings such as, intake and booking, health care unit for sick call, emergency in-housing, chronic care clinics and the medical unit; utilize assessment skills that require a knowledge base of both normal and abnormal adult and juvenile health status; and communicate assessment data in a comprehensive, orderly fashion both verbally and in writing. Daily to weekly contact with public health nurses and extended care facility personnel to facilitate discharge planning; with employees from other departments including x-ray, pharmacy, dietary, activities, social services, occupational, speech and physical therapy, laboratories, housekeeping, and maintenance to coordinate activities and procedures affecting patient care and treatment.