Community Health Nurse - Extra Help Community Health Nurse

Examples of Duties

• Provides nursing advice to patients
• Administers medications and performs assessments
• May provide case management services and utilization review for programs including CSS, CHDP, MCA, Outreach, Medi-Cal Targeted case management, Indigent Health Care and other programs
• Affords assistance to clients to gain access to needed medical, social, educational and other services
• Promotes the control of communicable disease by early detection and preventive treatment
• Records communicable diseases as prescribed by State and County laws and regulations
• Makes home visits to follow up on identified at-risk mother and infants; teaches parenting skills
• Functions as an "On-Call" nurse to give information and make appropriate referrals by telephone
• Explains physician's instructions and recommendations to patient and patient's families
• Promotes preventative medicine by providing health education and conducting presentations
• Might provide grief counseling to parents in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Engages in outreach and other activities to enhance services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries

Minimum Qualifications

• One (1) year of professional nursing experience
• (Possession of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, or a closely related field may be substituted for the one (1) year of required experience)
• Possession of a valid California Registered Nurse license
• Possession of a valid California driver's license at time of appointment and maintain

Essential Functions

• Operate a personal computer and other office equipment
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone
• Analyze data, interpret directions, procedures and regulations, and develop appropriate responses
• Perform job duties under stressful conditions and respond appropriately to situations
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception
• Frequent lifting, carrying, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting and manipulating large and small objects
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination; Normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping
• Frequent use of data entry device including repetitive hand and arm motion
• Occasional exposure to hazardous materials, cold and heat
• Regular attendance is an essential function

Knowledge Required

• Principles, methods, and procedures of general nursing and of public health nursing
• Causes, means of transmission, and method of control of communicable disease, including venereal disease, AIDS, and tuberculosis
• Means of promotion child and maternal health and life, including the care of handicapped children
• Sociological and cultural problems involved in public health nursing
• Community resources and demography
• State laws relating to reporting child/adult abuse cases

Ability Required

• Educate and work with patients and their families in the various Public Health Program
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
• Effectively communicate in writing to develop reports and complete patient charts
• Effectively communicate orally to make presentations to patient, families, and community groups
• Listen and counsel patients and families on sensitive and confidential issues
• Detect health problems and assist in intervention to promote optimal health care
• Administer and review results of skin s for tuberculosis
• Administer hearing, vision, EKG and blood pressure sing and record results
• Draw blood for laboratory sing
• Maintain confidential material