Per Diem Occupational Health Nurse - RN

About the role

This position is responsible for performing regulatory testing, injury/illness care, worker’s comp, wellness education for employees within the nursing scope of practice, the structure of the Client Standards, policies, procedures, and treatment care guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provides medical care to clinic patients as requested/needed, and within the RN scope of practice, following treatment care guidelines set forth by the occupational health director.
• Evaluation, treatment, and case management of occupational illnesses and injuries and referring cases to providers
• Assist providers in managing, coordinating, documentation of Workers Comp claims & communicates with Client’s WC claims carrier as needed.
• Maintain Electronic Medical Record (EMR- Cority) and ensures complete & accurate documentation
• Performs regulatory testing including but not limited to: Respiratory medical evaluation, spirometry, audiometry, vision tests, urine test, EKG, immunizations, blood draws, stress test, MicroFit, heat stress
• May perform First Aid, CPR, AED, and other training as necessary
• Assist with Outage scheduling
• Provides preventive health education to employees as needed within scope of practice.
• Maintains clinic utilization reports - clinic encounters, first aid injuries, Workers' Compensation claims, supply inventory, equipment calibration & inventory
• Participates in general flow of clinic operations (answers phones, checks email, medical records, scheduling, filing, copying charts, traffic control).
• Maintain clinic’s medical & office supplies in collaboration with ancillary staff
• Maintains communication with the Clinic Medical Director, Account manager, Team Lead & client as necessary
• Ensures that employees have appropriate return-to-work clearances.
• Coordinates employee exams & medical surveillance
• Other duties as assigned or those duties that may be required as management deems necessary.

Schedule

May be assigned to the night shift or weekend work during the outage.