Public Health Nurse Level I/II

About the role

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on: 12/15/25, 1/12/2026, 2/17/2026, 3/16/2026, 4/13/2026, 5/18/2026, 6/15/2026, 7/13/2026, 8/17/2026, 9/14/2026, 10/13/2026, 11/16/2026, 12/14/2026.

Responsibilities

• Works under supervision of a Supervising Public Nurse and may receive work direction from a Senior Public Health Nurse, or receive supervision from a higher level nurse, or receive supervision from a higher level health program manager with medical direction as needed from a physician or professional nurse, depending on job assignment.
• Provides standard public health nursing services to individuals and families in homes, in group settings, in specialized clinics and in public health centers; or, assists in a public health program focusing on one specific client group.
• May be designated as nurse-in-charge or nurse-of-the-day for specific shifts or special-purpose-clinic assignments and when so designated may give work direction to other employees.
• Conducts and participates in in-service education and training.
• Teaches public group classes.
• Investigates and treats communicable diseases and environmentally based illnesses.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications (Level I): Registration and licensure as a Registered Nurse and public health nurse specialty certificate issued by the state of California.
• Minimum Qualifications (Level II): Six months of experience as a licensed/certified Public Health Nurse performing public health nursing duties.

Qualifications

• Ability to effectively communicate with and gain the cooperation of clients, and potential clients, of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other health and social service providers.
• Ability to conduct interviews of patients and families to gain information to evaluate their medical situation.
• Ability to determine and apply effective means of intervening in cases of mental illness, and substance abuse.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate and teach care of infants, children, the disabled and chronically ill to individuals in their homes.
• Ability to effectively teach public group classes.
• Ability to gain cooperation of patients and other individuals in investigating and treating communicable diseases and environmentally based illnesses.
• Tolerance for unsanitary homes.
• Able to recognize, and avoid or defuse, potentially dangerous situations and hostile people.
• Able to accurately evaluate cases to determine caseload priorities.
• Able to plan routes and schedule in-home visits to make the most effective use of time.
• Able to learn to operate slide and movie projectors, and use other teaching aids.

Skills

• Knowledge of professional public health nursing principles, procedures and techniques.
• Knowledge of State of California laws and regulations on nursing practices.
• Knowledge of normal course of illnesses and disabilities, and their treatment.
• Knowledge of family planning methods.
• Knowledge of pre-natal, pregnancy and post-natal nutrition and medical care.
• Knowledge of infant and child care, growth, and development, including common illnesses.
• Knowledge of case management techniques and the care and treatment of high risk, physically impaired and developmentally disabled infants and children.
• Knowledge of substance abuse symptoms and intervention techniques.
• Knowledge of mental illness symptoms and intervention techniques.
• Knowledge of symptoms, prevention, reporting requirements and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect.
• Knowledge of normal and abnormal family dynamics.
• Knowledge of basic techniques of organizing and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects.
• Knowledge of basic individual and group counseling techniques applicable to public health nursing.
• Knowledge of common public and community health care resources.
• Knowledge of social and economic factors influencing individual and community health.
• Knowledge of differing cultural, religious and social attitudes about hygiene, family planning, child care, and health treatment.
• Knowledge of proper handling and administering of biological.
• Knowledge of proper handling of contaminated items.
• Knowledge of causes, control, detection, prevention and treatment of common communicable diseases, environmentally based illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases, and food and water-borne illnesses.
• Knowledge of basic procedures for conducting epidemiological investigations.
• Knowledge of standard medical record-keeping.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

• Level I - $9,255.06 - $11,249.08/month
• Level II - $9,693.50 - $11,783.28/month

Schedule

Not specified.