Public Health Nurse II

* Demonstrates independent nursing judgment performing comprehensive individual and family assessments, including social determinants of health.
* Works independently to conduct home visits with assigned families to provide support services to improve child health, growth and development outcomes.
* Demonstrates decision making and problem solving, using critical thinking skills, regarding public health issues.
* Utilizes a strength-based and person-centered approach
* Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate actions to be taken in multiple diverse and complex circumstances.
* Promotes and participates in public health education and disease prevention.
* Promotes immunization recommendations.
* Acts as a health advocate for individuals, families and the community.
* Prepares, updates, and maintains records to ensure accuracy and completeness.
* Complies with privacy and security laws (HIPAA), Federal, State, and Agency policies, and procedures.
* Complies with all job safety requirements, including OSHA standards and quality control requirements.
* Demonstrates knowledge of community resources and makes referrals to community agencies.
* Collaborates with community agencies to ensure coordination of care.
* Participates in continuing education programs and self-directed education to keep skills and knowledge current.
* Demonstrates appropriate communication skills in addressing co-workers, community members and partners, and clients.
* Demonstrates basic computer skills and willingness to adapt to new software programs as indicated.
* Demonstrates dependable and reliable attendance patterns.
* Participates in trainings, drills, investigations, and team responses to public health emergencies and bioterrorism events.
* Participates in Community Health Outreach activities and events.
* All other duties as assigned or delegated.
* Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program
* Two to four years of related nursing experience (preferred)
* Describes factors affecting the health of the community
* Explains how community health assessments use information about health status, factors influencing health, assets, and resources
* Use quantitative and qualitative data
* Describes assets and resources that can be used for improving the health of the community
* Describes how evidence (e.g., data, findings reported in peer-reviewed literature, evidenced based practices) is used in decision making
* Make evidence-based decisions using data and best practice strategies to promote community health
* Apply ethical principles on the use of data and information - Advocate for the use of evidence using public health science skills
* Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, using, maintaining, and disseminating data and information
* Identifies the literacy of populations served (e.g., ability to obtain, interpret, and use health and other information, social media literacy)
* Communicates in writing and orally with linguistic and cultural proficiency
* Solicits input from individuals and organizations for improving the health of a community
* Conveys data and information to professionals and the public using a variety of approaches
* Communicates information to influence behavior and improve health
* Describes the roles of governmental public health, health care, and other partners in improving the health of a community
* Describes the scientific foundation of and prominent events in public health history
* Retrieves evidence from multiple sources to support decision making
* Recognizes limitations of evidence (e.g., validity, reliability, sample size, bias, generalizability)
* Describes evidence used in developing, implementing, evaluating, and improving policies, programs, and services
* Describes…