Personal & Family Health RN (Full-time)

Chippewahd; Sault Ste. Marie (MI); Sur place; USD 65 000 - 85 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Chippewacountymi's Personal & Family Health division seeks a full-time Personal/Family Health RN to provide quality nursing care in line with Michigan Nurse Practice Act and Public Health Service standards. You will help ensure safe care environments and lead in community health activities.

You will develop care plans, mentor others, teach clients, and participate in data collection for communicable disease reporting.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing with MI licensure or temporary licensure.
• Public health nursing experience preferred; ANA CHN Certification desired but not required.
• Current CPR certification and valid Michigan driver's license.
• 2 years of medical/surgical experience preferred but not required.

Responsabilités

• Formulates written care plans for assigned patients and family.
• Orients clients to policies and services, including rights and ER plan.
• Provides health care teaching related to client condition.
• Reports adverse developments to physician or supervisor.
• Performs medication safety per six rights and administers meds.
• Ensures proper specimen collection and labeling.
• Implements infection control practices and universal precautions.
• Participates in policy updates and quality improvement.
• Participates in staff conferences, committees, and discharge planning.
• Travels to various clinic locations and occasional weekend/evening work.

Connaissances

Care plan development

Nursing leadership

Patient education

Emergency response

Infection control

Formation

RN license (MI)

Nursing degree

Description du poste

Position Title: PERSONAL/FAMILY HEALTH RN (Full-time)

Division: Personal & Family Health

Union: MNA Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Ensures that quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with Michigan Nurse Practice Act, the

Health Department and Public Health Service Division standards. Maintains a safe care environment for clients.

Demonstrates leadership skills. Participates in mentoring program to help expand and strengthen base of

epidemiology and public health nursing. All clinic public health nurses are responsible for communicable disease

reporting, collection of data and follow-up.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Formulates a written care plan with assigned patients and/or significant other.
• Orients new clients to health department policies and services. Patient’s rights, client concerns, ER plan, etc.
• Provides health care teaching in relation to client’s condition/needs.
• Reports adverse or unexpected developments to physician and/or supervisor.
• Ensures client identification prior to the administration of drugs, treatments, or immunizations. Adheres to the six rights of medication administration: drug, client, time, dose, route, documentation.
• Ensures the accurate collection, labeling, and timely delivery of specimens.
• Implements Universal Precautions, infection control and isolation procedures when appropriate.
• Participates in implementation of new policies and procedures, forms and other planned changes to
• Participates in resolution of problems affecting quality of nursing care.
• Responds with professional judgment in emergency situations and in accordance with policy.
• Contributes to the evaluation of staff members and volunteers.
• Participates in record review.
• Participates in staff meetings, patient conferences, nursing committees, task force activities, and discharge planning.
• Participates in weekend and evening work, as needed, for client services.
• Confers with other disciplines, coordinates client care and team function, and refers to community resources according to prioritized needs.
• Speaks to groups in area to increase visibility of Health Department services and to meet area needs.
• Represents Health Department in community at designated conferences, workshops, professional meetings, health fairs, etc. utilizing Health Department booth display where appropriate.
• Maintains certification and credentialing.
• Participates in required and voluntary continuing education programs to reach professional growth objectives.
• Prepares and provides appropriate material for educational workshops, lectures, and training events.
• Provides or assists with in-service education and orientation of new and existing staff, and students.
• Provides for client safety/ease of care through preventive measures.
• Identifies the health status of assigned clients including physical, social and emotional needs. Identifies and evaluates patient and family learning needs, ability and readiness to learn and documents appropriately.
• All other duties as assigned.

Other Functions

• During a public health emergency, the employee may be required to perform duties similar to but not limited to those in his/her job description.
• Recognizes that positive employee relations are a necessary precedent for positive client relations.

Provides assistance when seeing another in need. Contributes to the team effort of providing superior customer service to enhance the image of the Health Department. Refrains from holding negative conversations about duties, assignments, co-workers and clients. Adheres to Health Department telephone courtesy standards for answering, placing and transferring calls, as well as general telephone use. Does not allow personal telephone calls or visitors to interfere with telephone responsibilities, public encounters or customer courtesy to others. Demonstrates an effort to assure that customers/clients wait in definite expectations of when and how they will be served. Professionally addresses others (smile, handshake, eye contact, voice, posture, grammar, grooming and dress). Responsible for promoting and securing potential clients and referrals.

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the above tasks. (These examples do not include all of the tasks which the employees may be expected to perform.)

Requirements

EMPLOYMENT QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing; Current State of Michigan nursing licensure, or eligibility for licensure with application for temporary license; Public Health nursing experience; ANA CHN Certification preferred, but not required.

Experience: 2 years working in medical/surgical facility, preferred but not required.

Other Requirements: Current CPR certification. Possession of a valid Michigan driver’s license. Ability to provide own transportation.

The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimum skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this job description. The qualifications should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment or promotional standards, but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job-related selection or promotional criteria.

Physical Requirements

Physical Requirements: [This job requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include, but are not limited to, the following requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements]:

• Stooping and bending to examine children and adults.
• Climbs stairs to access clients in their homes.
• Ability to travel throughout the county to various clinic locations.
• Ability to access clients in their homes.
• Ability to access office files.
• Ability to enter and access information using a computer.
• Lifts and carries various materials and supplies to locations where services are delivered.
• Ability to carry and lift small children and equipment such as computers weighing up to 40 lbs.

Working Conditions

• Significant travel to various destinations within assigned work area.
• Frequent exposure to inclement weather conditions.
• Irregular work hours
• Works in office conditions and travels throughout community to work in homes and other locations where
• Exposure to environmental hazards.
• Handles household hazardous waste materials.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and blood and other bodily fluids.