Public Health Nurse III

An employee in this classification plans, directs, and supervises the clinical services or community outreach programs and staff as well as providing direct patient nursing care and/or services. Employees spend time assessing, planning, and coordinating a variety of services and have strong input into services, care, and administrative procedures and processes and ensuring that these are followed. Work involves gathering, managing, reviewing, and submitting care and services data to the division manager.

Work also includes serving as the back-up Public Health Nurse Supervisor or the Preparedness Coordinator. In clinic settings, the employee is typically responsible for supervising nursing services to the community through the provision of a specific clinical program such as rabies prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, breast and cervical cancer, family planning, maternal health, sickle cell, and/or adult health. Supervision of outreach services involve reviewing and assessing complex or potentially complex conditions, taking into account both the physical aspects of the issue and the impact of other factors such as patient or family strengths and resources, income, culture, and family dynamics in order to help families develop and implement a usable plan of care.

The employee in this classification also performs Public Health Nurse II duties as needed. Driving may be required. Considerable public contact is involved in working with clients from diverse socio and economic backgrounds. Work is differentiated from that of Public Health Nurse II by complexity and scope of work and supervisor responsibilities. Supervisory responsibilities are performed with a high degree of independence within the framework of standard routines and procedures.

Work is circumscribed by the North Carolina Nurse Practice Act, public health nursing standards, clinic protocols, agency work standards and program protocols. Work requires a strong understanding of public health concepts, nursing theory and practice and independent judgement in applying the professional standards and guidelines.

• Develops and provides program policies and procedures.
• Recommends program policy/procedure changes to supervisor and management
• Maintains and revises the agency Postpartum Maternal-Newborn Home Visiting agency manuals and program standing orders.
• Ensures staff follow policy/procedures for deliverance of quality services
• Develops and implements program corrective action plans
• Assists in determining staffing needs
• Serves as lead contact for the Postpartum Maternal-Newborn Home Visiting Program
• Responsible for data management, including gathering, organizing, reviewing, and presenting data
• Provides community outreach, including formal program presentations
• Serves as liaison to community partners for program issues

Graduation from a four-year college or university with a B.S. in Nursing, which includes a Public Health Nursing rotation and two years of Public Health nursing experience; or a Master's in Public Health and graduation from a school of professional nursing and two years of professional nursing experience; or graduation from a school of professional nursing and three years of professional nursing experience including two years of Public Health nursing experience;

or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Registered Nurses without the above work experience may be considered as a work-against for the position.

Must have a valid NC Driver's License.

Stanly County is an equal-opportunity employer.