Public Health Nurse
Company: Douglas County
Location: Omaha
Posted on: October 12, 2024
Job Description:
The Position
Incumbent works under the direction of the assigned supervisor or
designee, providing Public Health Nursing (PHN) services in various
community, office, and clinic locations in strict adherence to
established policies, procedures, and regulations.
Essential Functions
- Provide nursing services assessing individual and community
health status, identifying current or potential health risks and
conditions, planning and implementing appropriate individual or
community level interventions.
- Assess actual/potential health conditions; review healthcare
service delivery systems; and identify physical, psychological, and
allied health needs.
- Execute nursing plan and/or treatment regimens, referrals, and
follow-ups, collaborating with supervisor or other staff.
- Establish and maintain effective work relationships with
clients, supervisors, County employees, elected officials,
attorneys, law enforcement, judges, other agencies, and the
public.
- Comply with Civil Service policies and regulations, collective
bargaining agreements, County policies, department policies and
laws to create a cooperative, safe, respectful and quality work
environment.
- Comply with department security and safety protocols (e.g.
securing, handling and transportation of biohazards).
- Conduct educational sessions (e.g. presentations, lectures,
workshops, classroom training, videos, one-on-one).
- Respond to inquiries; supply current health condition
information; and provide educational information promoting good
hygiene, life style changes, optimum health maintenance, disease
prevention and other appropriate health care practices.
- Track and maintain reported communicable disease cases/data,
immunization history/ status, feto-infant death, and STI Clinic
client activity creating reports.
- Be familiar with local, state, and national communicable
disease statistics and current communicable disease trends
preparing for possible local outbreaks.
- Implement current disease control measures during local disease
outbreaks and public health emergencies (e.g. coordinating and
performing nursing functions).
- Prepare and maintain information (e.g. records, reports,
documents).
- Assist with program evaluation recommending methods to maximize
program efficiency.
- Assist in developing, writing, implementing, and reporting of
grants/other funding requests.
- Maintain job knowledge and skills (e.g. research, meetings,
trainings, seminars, webinars, conferences, continuing
education).
- Assist in training and orientation of new employees and
assigned staff.
- Serve on internal and community committees.
- Collaborate with internal and community agencies regarding
domestic preparedness with public health emergencies.
- Participate in public health emergency response planning and
training, responding during emergency.
- Safely operate a motor vehicle when required to travel on
County business.
- Report to assigned work location with regular, consistent
attendance.
- Perform other duties as assigned and directed.
- Communicable Disease - Tuberculosis
- Conduct tuberculosis (TB) control and surveillance activities
(e.g. case identification, contact investigation, TB testing,
referrals), ensuring provided treatment to active TB cases.
- Perform tuberculin skin tests (TST) or collect diagnostic
specimens.
- Provide case management services utilizing nursing processes
and incorporating guidance for non-nursing personnel to provide
Directly Observed Therapy (DOT).
- Conduct disease control and follow-up activities (e.g.
investigating, interviewing, counseling, database recording,
completing reports, describing possible disease sources, explaining
follow-up efforts).
- Provide in-home PHN services (e.g. DOTs).
- Collect, prepare and transport clinical specimens.
- STI and Immunization Clinic
- Implement diagnostic and therapeutic regimens prescribed by
duly licensed practitioners notifying supervisor of unusual or
critical situations.
- Provide PHN services (e.g. in-home immunizations, health
clinics, adult-oriented health centers, community settings, other
locations).
- Collect, prepare and transport clinical specimens.
- Assist in organizing and conducting satellite immunization
clinics (e.g. retrieve and deliver materials and supplies,
assemble/disassemble clinic sites, administer vaccines).
- Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)
- Provide limited nurse case management services (e.g. maternal
interview, family assessment/teaching, referral to resources).
- Review and abstract information from case-related medical
records, develop case summaries, and facilitate FIMR case
review.
Education and Work Experience and Other Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in
Nursing required.*
- Registered Nurse (RN) with a current Nebraska license required
upon hire and maintained in good standing throughout
employment.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
- Experience in public health, nurse case management, and
communicable disease control preferred.
- One (1) year of MSOffice, database, and graphics
experience/training preferred.
- Valid driver's license and own transportation upon hire and
maintained throughout employment required.
- Completion of a pre-employment criminal record check,
conditional offer drug screen and physical assessment
required.
- *Equivalent combination of education and work experience may be
substituted for requirements on a year-for-year basis.
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions
- The physical demands and work environment characteristics
described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this
job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work is generally performed in an office or healthcare setting,
community locations or residences and occasionally outdoors. Noise
level is usually quite to moderate. Work hours are typically
standard day-shift hours; however, schedule may vary (e.g. days,
hours, overtime/extra hours, weekends, holidays, emergency
call-ins). Work involves potential exposure to adverse
socioeconomic conditions and biohazards. Work may be stressful when
dealing with time constraints, multiple/changing priorities,
limited resources, emergency/crisis situations and
uncooperative/irate individuals.
- Work requires physical activity, including extended periods of
sitting, standing, walking, frequent kneeling, bending, crouching,
reaching, stooping, climbing, carrying and occasional balancing.
Work also requires the ability to frequently lift and/or carry
objects weighing up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50
pounds.
- Required sensory abilities include vision, hearing and touch.
Visual abilities correctable to normal ranges include close,
distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the
ability to adjust focus. Communication abilities include the
ability to talk and hear within normal ranges. Incumbent must
possess the hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to
operate computers and other equipment.
Douglas County is an EOE - Disability/Veterans
Keywords: Douglas County, Lincoln , Public Health Nurse, Healthcare , Omaha, Nebraska
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