Full-Time Occupational Health RN
Job Description
SUMMARY
The Occupational Health Nurse is responsible for assisting with medical examinations, administering authorized medications and treatments, providing referrals, maintaining accurate reports and records, coordinating blood donation drives, and counseling employees on health subjects such as nutrition and communicable diseases. Performs triage of applicants/employees to support staff according to their need.
Must have 1 year of Occupational Health experience!
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Triage of employees/applicants for both Medical and EAP.
• Assists with physical examination (hearing, vision, phlebotomy, vital signs).
• Coordinates immunizations, blood drive and wellness activities and preventive programs.
QTHER FUNCTIONS
• Administers and maintains Wellness Programs.
• Instructs topics such as health education, disease prevention, and develops health improvement programs.
• Maintains accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Performs related duties as required.
• Performs research and statistical analyses and prepares periodic or other reports in support of the health unit as required.
• Prepares patients for, and assists with, examinations or treatments.
• Tests vision and hearing and gives injections/draws blood.
• Administers medications and treatments authorized by physicians with the Medical Director’s approval.
• Assists in the conduct of medical examinations including taking partial or complete medical histories, checking vital signs such as pulse, respiration, blood pressure, height, weight, etc.
• Conducts face-to-face discussions with individuals and/or teams.
• Consults and coordinates with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
• Counsels employees and develops educational programs on health subjects including nutrition, dental and safety regimen, care of minor injuries and illnesses, family and health problems, and care of communicable diseases.
• Ensures medical case documentation is appropriate and compatible among user offices; maintains confidentiality on records/information specific to sensitive medical/health work performance issues for management and contract employees.
• Assists MRO and reviews negative drug tests.
KNOWLEDGE
• Occupational Health: Knowledge of Occupational Health Nursing principles, procedures, and medical ethics
• Medicine: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Healthcare Trends: Knowledge of current and emerging healthcare trends and health education principles.
• Knowledge of EAP, mental health and substance abuse disorders.
SKILLS
• Active Listening: Skill in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Relationship Building: Skill in establishing and maintaining effective and professional working relationships with peers, team members, clients and strategic partners.
• Writing: Skill in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Adaptation: Skill in adjusting one’s actions in relation to others’ actions.
• Analytical Thinking: Skill in analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
• Assessing Performance: Skill in assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Communication: Skill in communicating effectively at all levels of the organization, both orally and in writing.
• Critical Thinking: Skill in applying logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making: Skill in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Monitoring: Skill in monitoring and assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Reading Comprehension: Skill in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
ABILITIES MACHINES, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, AND HARDWARE
• Achievement Striving: Ability to set high standards to do the best possible job.
• Self-Control: Ability to remain calm and levelheaded in difficult or stressful situations.
• Speech Clarity: Ability to communicate orally in a clear fashion that is understandable to a listener.
• Speech Recognition: Ability to hear and understand the speech of another person.
• Written Comprehension: Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Deductive Reasoning: Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers.
• Dependability: Ability to be reliable and responsible to others.
• Inductive Reasoning: Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Information Ordering: Ability to correctly follow a rule or set of rules in order to arrange things or actions in a certain order.
• Near Vision: Ability to make visual discriminations at a close range.
• Oral Comprehension: Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression: Ability to use words and sentences in speaking so others will understand.
• Problem Sensitivity: Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong; it does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Telephone
• Time accounting software
• Microsoft Office suite software
• AED, EBT, and EMR
CORE COMPENTENCIES
• SAFETY
• CUSTOMER SERVICE
• ACCOUNTABILITY
• INTEGRITY
• TEAMWORK
• COMMUNICATION
Education
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or related field required.
Experience
• Minimum 3 years of outpatient clinical experience as nurse required as an Occupational Health RN.
Certification/Licensure
• Registered Nurse or related license required.
PREFERRED
Education
• Master’s Degree in Nursing or related field preferred.
Experience
• Experience supervising. • Experience in occupational clinical setting. •
How to Apply
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