Maternal Child Health (MCH) Home Visiting Nurse (Public Health Nurse II

Position: Maternal Child Health (MCH) Home Visiting Nurse (Public Health Nurse II)

Job Announcement

• $10,000 Sign-On Bonus

Job Announcement
This job opportunity is being re-announced. Applicants who wish to revise their original application are encouraged to reapply with a revised application. Otherwise, all applicants who previously applied do not need to reapply to be considered.

• $10,000 Sign-On Bonus

The Fairfax County Health Department is a progressive public health leader serving 1.2 million residents from diverse ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds. With more than 120 years of leadership in the field, we are committed to promoting population health, protecting public health and the environment, and ensuring residents' equitable access to health services and information; protecting, promoting, and improving the health and wellbeing for all in our community.

Fairfax County Health Department's Maternal Child Health (MCH) Program offers two home visiting programs: MCH Field and Nurse-Family Partnership. The MCH Home Visiting Public Health Nurse (PHN) II provides home visiting services to at-risk and high-risk pregnant/postpartum women, infants, and children in accordance with the specific home visiting program model. This position helps transform the lives of vulnerable families using a multidisciplinary approach to improve pregnancy outcomes, child health and development, and family economic self-sufficiency.

Applies public health nursing principles of case-finding, health promotion, anticipatory guidance and education, case management and disease prevention. Identifies, screens, and assesses clients for health risks and implements public health nursing interventions that focus on positive pregnancy and infant/child health outcomes. Provides parenting education, child health and development screening, evaluation and consultation. Possesses knowledge of community resources and refers clients as necessary.

Collaborates with other professionals to ensure appropriate care is provided, coordinates multi-disciplinary services, and supports families in attaining their targeted goals. The MCH Home Visiting PHN II must maintain a high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information and professionalism in dealing with clients, families, and colleagues. For information about Fairfax County Public Health Nursing, . To learn about Public Health Nurses in Fairfax County,  to watch "Public Health Nursing:
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• This position includes a sign-on bonus for fully qualified new merit county employees in the amount of $10,000 (full-time).

Required Knowledge

Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of nursing and public health theories, principles, practices, methods, processes, and procedures required to provide public health nursing;
• Knowledge of human growth and development, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology (e.g., side effects, contraindications), preventive medicine, epidemiology, and nutrition;
• Knowledge of current practices in public health nursing service delivery;
• Knowledge of available community resources for referral or the ability to rapidly acquire such knowledge;
• Knowledge of documentation, nursing diagnosis, and quality assurance;
• Knowledge of professional standards of nursing practice;
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, and county laws and regulations;
• Knowledge of county Health Department policies and procedures;
• Ability to perform technical and complex nursing procedures (e.g., injections, venipuncture, blood pressure screening, STD check, tube feeding, nebulization), administering treatments and medications, and using medical equipment in delivering services to clients;
• Ability to perform emergency treatment(s), with limited supervision, for life threatening conditions;
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with others, including those from varied backgrounds and different situations, in individual and team-based settings;
• Ability to handle contentious interactions, especially with those who may appear difficult, hostile, or distressed;
• Ability to identify problems and make sound, well-informed, and objective decisions or judgments relating to client health care;
• Ability to assess the quality, appropriateness, implications, and impact of decisions or judgments made by others and identify courses of corrective action, where appropriate;
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with individual or small and large group interactions;
• Ability to provide health training to clients and families with complex, multiple health needs, using knowledge of adult learning concepts;
• Ability to accurately maintain client medical records and information (e.g., filing, retrieval, recording, and archiving) and to protect the privacy of clients served;
• Ability to use technology to document, file, retrieve, make adjustments to medical records or information, and communicate or share public health information in the appropriate format;
• Ability to assign paraprofessionals,…