Supervising Public Health Nurse

The Position

This is a continuous filing exam. The next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on: 5/21/26, 8/20/26, 11/19/26. Supervising Public Health Nurses work under general administrative supervision of a higher-level health program manager, and receive medical direction as needed from a physician or higher-level nursing manager such as the designated head of public health nursing. The focus of duties is on supervising, planning, organizing and reviewing the operations, program, and personnel of a public health field office staffed by professional nurses, health workers and others.

Knowledge of

• Basic principles and practices of supervision and personnel management
• Professional public health nursing principles, procedures and techniques
• State of California laws and regulations on nursing practices
• Normal course of illnesses and disabilities, and their treatment
• Family planning methods
• Pre-natal, pregnancy and post-natal nutrition and medical care
• Infant and child care, growth, and development, including common illnesses
• Case management techniques and the care and treatment of high risk, physically impaired and developmentally disabled infants and children
• Substance abuse symptoms and intervention techniques
• Mental illness symptoms and intervention techniques
• Symptoms, prevention, reporting requirements and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect
• Normal and abnormal family dynamics
• Techniques of planning, evaluating, teacher-training, organizing and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects
• Individual and group counseling techniques applicable to public health nursing
• Common public and community health care resources
• Social and economic factors influencing individual and community health
• Differing cultural, religious and social attitudes about hygiene, family planning, child care, and health treatment
• Proper handling and administering of biologicals
• Proper handling of contaminated items; causes, control, detection, prevention and treatment of common communicable diseases, environmentally based illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases, and food and water-borne illnesses
• Procedures for planning and conducting epidemiological investigations
• Standard medical record-keeping
Ability to
• Supervise and train employees
• Effectively recommend employee selections, promotions, status changes and other personnel actions
• Plan, organize and control work of staff
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for work unit in accordance with department goals, policies and procedures
• Learn, comply with, and ensure staff compliance with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures, including security requirements, applicable to the work unit
• Effectively communicate with and gain the cooperation of clients, and potential clients, of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds
• Work cooperatively with other health and social service providers
• Determine and apply effective means of intervening in cases of mental illness and substance abuse
• Effectively plan, organize, conduct, and participate in in-service education and training programs
• Effectively demonstrate and teach care of infants, children, the disabled and chronically ill to individuals in their homes
• Effectively teach public group classes
• Gain cooperation of patients and other individuals in investigating and treating communicable diseases and environmentally-based illnesses
• Accurately evaluate cases to determine caseload priorities
• Maintain patient confidentiality
Employment Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications Either: One year of experience as a Senior Public Health Nurse in Sacramento County service. Or: Two years of experience as a Public Health Nurse in Sacramento County Service. Or: Three years of experience as a licensed/certified public health nurse performing public health nursing duties. Notes:

• Experience requirements are stated as full-time work; to convert part-time to full-time equivalency; 173.6 hours = 21.7 days = 1 work month.
• Required experience may be paid or unpaid.

Note: If the minimum qualifications include an educational or certificate/license requirement, applicants must submit…