Location: Dillingham
Public Health Nurse 3
Are you passionate about community health and ready to make a difference? Public Health Nurses (PHNs) play a vital role in promoting wellness and protecting Alaska communities, such as:
- Health screenings and preventive care
- Infectious disease monitoring and treatment
- Community health assessments and improvement initiatives
As a Public Health Nurse 3, you'll bring expert-level care, contribute to quality improvement efforts, and travel periodically to outlying communities to deliver care where it's needed most.
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:
- Adaptability: adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
- Self-Management: sets well-defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.
- Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
Special Notice:
- A valid Driver's License is required at the time of appointment.
- Alaska Registered Nurse License -- Alaska Nurse Practice Act:
Nursing Statutes AS 08.68, Nursing Regulations 12 AAC 44.
Eligibility for licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Alaska; AND
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university or Direct Entry Master of Science (MSN) in Nursing from an accredited college or university; AND
Any combination of additional education, certification, and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Public Health: Applies knowledge of the concepts, principles, theories, methods, and tools associated with protecting and improving the health of people and their communities, including promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing, and responding to infectious diseases.
- Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
- Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
- Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
- Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Advanced post-secondary education in nursing, public health, healthcare services, healthcare administration, or a closely related field that includes master's level study in nursing and/or public health; AND/OR
Professional experience in public health, community health, international health, and/or occupational health nursing.
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