Public Health Nurse - Nurse Family Partnership Program

The Department of Public Health has an opening for a Public Health Nurse (PHN) to join our Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Team at the Kent Public Health clinic. Nurse-Family Partnership is a community health program that partners a person pregnant with their first child with a registered nurse. The nurse provides home or community visits from pregnancy through the child's second birthday.

Through this transformative and challenging life phase, our nurses offer the support, information, and resources their clients desire as they build the lives they want for themselves and their children. Components of the program include a provision of home visiting services to a caseload of 25 families per PHN, engagement in weekly reflective supervision sessions, and participation in weekly team meetings.

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• Obtain and document health history and make nursing diagnosis based on nursing assessment.
• Documentation requires electronic charting: EPIC, and in an NFP database.
• Provide expertise regarding public health nursing scope, practice and policy at many levels.
• Provide support services to the client that links/refers, to other Health Department staff and community providers/partners, while assuring access and continuity of care.
• Provide program planning, monitoring local work plans and progress toward program goals.
• Participate in quality assurance activities to meet laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Provide training, orientation and education to staff, clients, students and the community.
• Provide birth control and pregnancy options counseling to clients as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in nursing science or a graduate level nursing degree of MSN, DNP or PhD from an accredited school of nursing
• Current Washington State license as a Registered Nurse or Multi-State Licensure
• Documentation of current BLS-CPR for Health Care Providers. CPR/AED Heart Saver courses do not meet this requirement
• Washington state driver's license
• Pass background and credentialing

Preference will be given to nurses who are bilingual in Spanish/English due to current program waitlists.

This position is a 1.0 FTE, fully-benefited, Career Service position with a typical work schedule of Monday - Friday, 8 a.m.

- 5 p.m. May work outside typical days/hours to meet operational needs. This position is subject to the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and is overtime eligible. This is a field visiting program and telework is not allowed.

Kent Public Health located at th Ave SE, Kent WA, 98042. Will work in various locations throughout King County.

This posting will be used to fill all needs. Interviews for this opportunity will be October 13th and 14th.

This position is open to all minimally qualified nurses which includes new to practice and re-entry nurses.

Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA).

Contact:
Amy M. Curtis, BSN, RN, Nurse Recruitment Manager tis with any questions.

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