Health Nurse

# Employee Health Nurse Legal Address - Plymouth, NH 03264## Overview Position Type Per Diem Job Shift Days## Description
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* Job Title:

Employee Health Nurse
** Are you a dedicated, detail-oriented healthcare professional with a passion for helping others? Join our team as an Employee Health Nurse and play a pivotal role in helping the patient care team provide safe, effective, and exceptional patient care. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and excel at providing compassionate care, we want to hear from you!
** About Speare Memorial Hospital
** Speare Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving dozens of communities in the Lakes Region. We are passionately committed to providing exceptional, local care to our friends, families, neighbors, and communities at large.
* Mission*:
To work together to serve the needs of our patients and community.
* Vision*: A community where all can achieve optimal health.
* Values*:
Kindness, Collaboration, Patient & Family-Centered, Safety, Excellence, Efficiency, and Professionalism.
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* What You’ll Do:

*** In collaboration with providers, conducts pre-employment post-offer physical exams for SMH new hires, for post-accident, or reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.
* Administers vaccine and health surveillance programs for SMH, community programs and contracted businesses based on CDC protocols and Infection Prevention Committee recommendations.
* Provides health and safety education training in both formal and informal settings.
* Identifies the need for safety and workers compensation procedural changes. Follows up appropriately.
* Maintains employee health information/employee health files in a confidential manner.
* Coordinates return to work assessments, fitness for duty assessments, and health surveillance evaluations.
* Prepares reports of employee health and safety information including, but not limited to, needle sticks/blood borne pathogen protocols including initial treatment and appropriate follow-up.  Communicates with Director of Quality Management and Infection Control as necessary.
* Maintains and updates the Sharps Log, OSHA logs and Company Log book with the current standards for testing.
* Serves as a member of the Safety Committee and Wellness Committee.
* Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates OSHA required testing programs which include, but not limited, to Respiratory Medical Evaluation Fit Testing and Chemotherapy screening.
* Trains ED Tech, Supervisors, and Med Check Urgent Care MA to BAT (Breath Alcohol Technicians), recertifies BATs, and maintains those records.
* Trains ED Tech, Supervisors, and Med Check Urgent Care MA to perform COC (Chain of Custody) drug screens.  Recertifies COC and maintains those records.
* Maintains confidential records of BAT’s & COC for outside Companies per government policy.
* Maintains and updates all SMH employee workers compensation cases. EH is responsible for documentation of first injury reporting, paperwork related to the injury; communication with the directors, human resources, CFO, brokerage firm;  reporting to safety committee  relative and pertinent information pertaining to the workers compensation injury, and collaborating with providers for follow up .
* Communicates with the brokerage firm regarding quarterly report.  Disseminates report(s) to the CFO, HR, Safety Coordinator and the director.
* In coordination with the Director, is responsible for developing, maintaining and revising Occupational and Employee Health policies and procedures.
* Assumes responsibility and accountability for time management, professional relationships and interpersonal communication.
* Attends and participates in department/hospital meetings as required.
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