Contract (12 months 11 days)
Published 4 days ago
Summary:
As a Nurse Practitioner in Rocky Mount, NC, you will play a crucial role in providing occupational health services to employees. You will be responsible for medical triage, evaluating employees returning to work after absences, injuries, and illnesses, administering treatments and medications, and ensuring compliance with medical standards. Your expertise will contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for all employees.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in medical triage
- Communicate perceived health problems related to workplace exposure and promotes good hygiene and safety practice
- Help to evaluate employees returning to work after absences, injuries, illnesses, and surgeries
- Facilitate earliest return to work for workers' compensation cases
- Participate in compliance with medical aspects of OSHA, and MSHA standards
- Dispense medications and immunizations and administer treatments
- Maintain medical department physical plant and provide inventory control of medications and supplies
- Maintain medical confidentiality records
Qualifications:
- MS/NP in nursing degree and current NP license in North Carolina
- Master’s Degree in Advanced Practice Registered Nursing
- Current APRN Board Certification
- Minimum of 3-5+ years' experience as an occupational nursing professional
- Minimum of 1-3+ years in case management, utilization review and/or quality assurance
- Experience in episodic care, wellness care and counseling of adults
- Proficiency in use of electronic medical record keeping systems desirable
- BLS certification required
- Experience in non-occupational nurse setting
- Experience in an occupational health setting
- Certification in audiometry and spirometry testing
- Working knowledge of applicable OSHA and MSHA regulations and state Worker's Compensation
- Certification as a breath alcohol technician and drug test collector
- CPR certification
- Phlebotomy experience required (perform EKGS, etc.)
- Ability to administer vaccinations
- Technical Competency Requirements:
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Americans with Disability Act (ADA)
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- OSHA
- OSHA Blood-borne pathogen/Universal precautions
Rate/Location:
- $60 - $64 per hour
- This is a fully onsite role in Rocky Mount, NC