Registered Nurse I, II, III

Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse I: $31.34 - DOE/DOQ Registered Nurse II: $34.55 - DOE/DOQ Registered Nurse III: $38.09 - DOE/DOQ DEPARTMENT:
Weber-Morgan Health PERSONNEL STATUS:
Full Time BENEFITS:
Health, Dental, Vision, Retirement, 401k match, Sick/Vacation, Life Insurance, Short-term Disability, Accident, Critical Illness;
Parental Leave;
Maternity Leave

Under general supervision of a Nursing Supervisor, performs community health nursing services as a public health nurse to provide preventative medical services. Positions in this class can be distinguished by the basic nursing duties they perform in the Clinical Nursing Division.

Works clinical nursing programs as assigned. Including but not limited to Immunizations, Travel Immunizations, Cancer Screening, Targeted Case Management, Prenatal-5, Baby your Baby, Immigration, STD/HIV, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis, Communicable disease. Provides skilled community health nursing care. Including but not limited to, assessing individual or family health needs; create nursing care plans and case management using Weber-Morgan Health Department's standing orders and following state, and federal recommendations;

making appropriate referrals as necessary; providing community health education.

Provides clinical services including administering immunizations to adults and children.

Performing clinical breast exams and pap smears.

Specimen collection and preparation of specimens for laboratory testing.

Administers appropriate medication and treatments including injections and oral medication administration.

Order additional follow up and treatments ( i.e. Diagnostics, imaging, medications)

Conduct communicable disease investigations as assigned. (i.e. interviews, contact tracing, treatment, and follow-up).

Answers communicable disease questions asked by the public and other health professionals.

Carry out appropriate public health activities according to the specific program contractual requirements.

May conduct home visitation visits per program guidelines to families and individuals deemed eligible.

Evaluates and sets priorities for public health services, participates in specified programs to the community, provides health education in the community as appropriate, works with other agencies as needed to meet objectives.

Supports outreach clinical activities as assigned.

Supports, participates in the response during a crisis events, i.e. pandemic response, bioterrorism, natural disasters.

Protects client confidentiality, making sure protected health information is secured. Process departmental actions while maintaining confidentiality.

Types letters, statement, narrative and statistical reports as assigned, record minutes, agendas and other documents as required. May draft correspondence as needed.

Other duties as assigned.

Any one position may not include all of the duties listed, nor do the listed examples include all duties which may be found in positions of this class. Applicants must be prepared to demonstrate the ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

None

Education:

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing with an Associate's or Bachelor's Degree.

Experience:

None

Knowledge:
Knowledge of community health nursing theory and practice. Working knowledge of medications, immunization schedules and ACIP guidance. Knowledge base of general communicable disease control, common communicable diseases, Universal Precautions, general public health education including nutrition, smoking cessation guidelines, exercise guidelines and disease prevention. Basic knowledge of the organization, functions, policies and procedures of the agency, some knowledge of new developments in community health nursing.

Skills:

Basic clinical nursing skills including but not limited to medication administration techniques including injections, appropriate specimen collection preparation, handling and transportation, and fingerstick and venipuncture procedures. Skill in typing and using all applicable computer hardware and software applications.

Telephone system, personal computer, including work processing software and spreadsheet software (Excel, Word, Next Gen Enterprise), copy machine, cash register, fax machine, calculator, I-pads, Laptops, and radios. Medical items used in providing clinical nursing services, including but not limited to blood pressure machine (manual and automatic), stethoscope, thermometer, phlebotomy supplies, sterile equipment, injectables equipment, medications, personal protective equipment.

Working knowledge of standard office computer operations and software applications including word processing, data entry, and spreadsheets.

Abilities:
Ability to apply knowledge of community health nursing theory and practice in all areas of clinical nursing services. Be able to assess patient needs, recognize…