PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE II

Essential Duties, Functions And Responsibilities

• Maintains health status to identify community health problems and diagnoses and investigates health problems and health hazards.
• Participates with interdisciplinary teams; works with tribal, State, County and Federal agencies in planning health related activities.
• Conducts and participates in community assessment to develop a plan of action.
• Conducts epidemiological and community surveys, field investigations and research studies to appraise health needs exercising discretion and independent judgment.
• Conducts community analysis in partnership with community representatives, and in collaboration with other public health or health care professionals.
• Maintains community health status and evaluates health trends and risk factors of population groups.
• Collects and analyzes valid and reliable data sources to comparisons for assessment.
• Investigates health problems and hazards; such as communicable diseases and develops a recommended plan of action to address these issues.
• Consults, advises and collaborates with individuals, families, communities and local, state, and federal systems.
• Helps to determine priorities for targeted interventions.
• Designs interventions to mobilize resources for action.
• Collaborates in the development and use of polices and plans that support individual, family, and community health efforts.
• Shares health information and collaborates with patients/families and other community resources.
• Provides health education to individuals, families and community groups in various settings, i.e., school, jail, community clinics (flu).
• Edits and coaches people to make appropriate and informed decisions about health issues.
• Ensures that current epidemiological processes are followed.
• Demonstrates complex reasoning abilities and critical thinking skills to be able to make connections between collected data and community and public health practice decisions.
• Builds community capacity by engaging community members and partners in designing more effective, sustainable health-promoting programs.
• Assesses patient needs.
• Conducts visits to homes, communities, schools and clinics to provide patient care, counseling, and instruction in preventative, curative and rehabilitative health matters.
• Consults with health care team members i.e., case management with health care providers.
• Administers the therapeutic measures as prescribed by the health team.
• Plans and provides comprehensive nursing services to individuals, families and communities; provides skilled nursing services to individuals and families in homes, schools and/or outreach clinics.
• Provides patient teaching and assist them in understanding, accepting and adjusting to the implications and responsibilities of medical care, diagnosis and treatment.
• Evaluates and reassesses patient needs.
• Participates in continuous evaluation of program and services, and performance improvement.
• Develops Standard of Care.
• Evaluates outcomes of interventions to continually improve population-based care.
• Uses literature based best practices.
• Affords mentorship, guidance and supervision of Public Health Nurse I.
• Completes all yearly Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required training by the indicated due dates.
• Affords assistance, promotion, and support compliance with established CMS standards.

Mandatory Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: One (1) year of direct work experience as a Public Health Nurse I.
• Education: Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from an accredited nursing program.
• Licenses: Valid and unrestricted license in any U.S. State or Territory.
• Certificates: Valid American Heart Association (AHA) certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and maintain certification. Must have (or obtain during orientation) unit specific certifications.