Employee Health RNII

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice. Focuses on patient/family centered care, addressing physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs.

About the role

The Employee Health nurse ensures the health and wellness of employees through management of Worker's Comp cases, pre-employment testing, blood draws for lab work, provision of essential medical services in the workplace, and operation of a wellness education program. Works closely with HR and the Clinical Leadership team, and may collaborate with other departments such as Quality and Safety to create infection control plans and monitor vaccination compliance.

Responsibilities

• Assess, develop nursing diagnoses, identify outcomes, plan, implement interventions, coordinate care, provide health teaching and promotion, and evaluate goals and interventions consistent with MUSC policies.
• Maintain a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior.
• Function in a professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, peer review, professional development, leadership, clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice, and accountability for actions and critical thinking.
• Coordinate effective and efficient delivery of patient care services using care management principles.
• Identify clinical priorities and initiate action to improve patient outcomes.
• Promote a healthy work environment and accept personal responsibility for professional growth.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing (Bachelor’s degree preferred).
• Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for Healthcare Providers or an American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification required for most nursing areas within the hospital.

Physical and Mental Requirements

• Ability to perform job functions while standing, sitting, and walking (continuous).
• Ability to climb stairs (infrequent).
• Ability to work indoors (continuous) and outside in temperature extremes (infrequent).
• Ability to work from elevated areas (frequent) and in confined/cramped spaces (frequent).
• Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions (infrequent), bending at the waist (continuous), twisting at the waist (frequent), and squatting (frequent).
• Ability to perform pinching, gross motor activities, firm grasping, and fine manipulation with fingers and hands (continuous).
• Ability to reach overhead (frequent) and in all directions (continuous).
• Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders (continuous).
• Ability to fully use both legs and lower extremities for balance and coordination (frequent).
• Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs. unassisted (infrequent).
• Ability to lift/lower objects 50 lbs. from/to floor from/to 36 inches unassisted (infrequent).
• Ability to lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. (infrequent).
• Ability to exert up to 50 lbs. of force (frequent). Examples include:
  • Transferring a 100 lb. patient who cannot assist requires 50 lbs. of force; for every additional 100 lbs., assistance is required.
  • 20 lbs. of force is needed to push a 400 lb. patient in a wheelchair on carpet.
  • 25 lbs. of force is required to push a stretcher with a patient using one hand.
• Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes (continuous).
• Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance, match or discriminate between colors, determine distance/relationship between objects, and maintain good peripheral vision (continuous).
• Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction (continuous).
• Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements (continuous).
• Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations (continuous).
• Ability to work rotating shifts (frequent) and overtime as required (frequent).
• Ability to work in a latex-safe environment (continuous).
• Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions (continuous).
• Ability to maintain good olfactory sensory function (continuous, selected positions).
• Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required (continuous, selected positions).

Pay

Hourly pay grade: Health-28.

Schedule

40 scheduled weekly hours, day shift.