Nurse (Public Health)

About the role

The primary purpose of this position is to provide professional community/public health nursing services through direct care to individuals, families, and identified populations through direct care, home and school visiting, and population-based assessment, prevention, and intervention activities.

Responsibilities

• Help individuals, families, and populations through nursing assessments, direct care, home and school visits, case finding, screenings, immunizations, disease management, and follow-up.
• Conduct or support community health assessments, collect and analyze epidemiological and demographic data, identify health trends and risk factors, and participate in communicable disease surveillance and outbreak response.
• Plan and provide health education, counseling, outreach, screenings, immunization activities, and disease-prevention interventions tailored to the cultural and social needs of individuals, families, and communities.
• Cook off referrals, follow-up, and case management while collaborating with interdisciplinary healthcare teams, tribal programs, schools, community organizations, and public health partners to support continuity of care.
• Support public health nursing programs through quality improvement, program evaluation, accurate documentation and reporting, continuing education, training, and adherence to professional nursing standards.

Requirements

This is a competitive vacancy announcement advertised under Direct Hire Authority. Selections made under this vacancy announcement will be processed as new appointments to the civil service. Current civil service employees would therefore be given new appointments to the civil service; however, benefits, time served, and all other Federal entitlements would remain the same.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements: Possession of a bachelor's degree in nursing and eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement provision, or possession of a bachelor's degree in nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience performing the duties listed above, or possession of a diploma or associate degree in professional nursing and two full years of professional nursing experience performing the duties listed above, or completion of at least one full year of graduate education in a professional nursing educational program.
• For the Gs-9 grade level: Possession of a diploma, associate's degree, bachelor's degree or master's degree from a professional nursing educational program and at least one full year of professional nursing experience performing the duties listed above.
• For the Gs-11 grade level: Successful completion of a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from a professional nursing educational program or related medical science field, or possession of a diploma, associate's degree, bachelor's degree or master's degree from a professional nursing educational program and at least one full year of professional nursing experience performing the duties listed above.