Public Health Nurse - Enhanced Role Registered Nurse (ERRN)

Public Health Nurse - Enhanced Role Registered Nurse (ERRN)

Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States

Salary: $68k-$109k/yr Field: Full Time

Responsibilities

• providing care
• conducting outreach
• coordinating services

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in nursing with public health rotation

• Moderate public health nursing experience

• Active North Carolina RN license

• Valid driver's license, and additional enhanced-role training

• Technical tools mentioned: Microsoft Excel

• Job description

• About the Department

• Performs intermediate professional work providing preventive care to individuals and families in Public Health programs specializing in child health, immunizations, reproductive health, family planning, communicable diseases and/or sexually transmitted diseases, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the moderate supervision of the Public Health Nursing Supervisor.

• Salary will be determined based on qualifications and experience, up to a maximum of $109,360.66 annually.

• Position Duties

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Essential Functions

• Domain 7: Management and Finance Skills 1-8, 10-13. Domain 6: Public Health Sciences Skills 3-4

• Function in the expanded nursing role with duties related to the employees’ expertise in child health, communicable diseases, or sexually transmitted diseases.

• Demonstrate and implement techniques of nursing care and counsel for the promotion of child health and/or the promotion of health and the prevention of sexually transmitted and communicable diseases through outreach in homes and schools, by identifying and describing factors affecting the health of the community.

• Employees obtain a health history, perform a physical examination sufficient to determine if there is a deviation from normal, and help the client to maintain a state of wellness through periodic screening procedures, health counseling, treatment under physician’s standing orders, and/or referral.

• Direct the work done during a clinic, assign tasks to lower-level staff appropriately, manage clinic flow, and advise other clinic staff about the management of unfamiliar patient situations.

• Serve as team leaders by coordinating the work assignments and quality of services delivered by a small team of lower-level nurses and sub-professionals that are part of a subgroup of a full project.

• Domain 1: Data Analytics and Assessment Skills 1-8

• Assist in data collection, review, and analysis by using methods and tools such as information technology and Excel for collecting, identifying, and analyzing public health data.