PRN Employee Health RN

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

The Employee Health RN supports LCMC Health’s performance-improvement initiatives and ensures compliance with applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements. The role coordinates employee health services, promotes workplace health and safety, maintains confidential employee health records, and helps evaluate and improve programs using evidence and data. The RN coordinates pre-employment screening and clearance, reviews immunization records, administers vaccinations, and conducts employee surveillance activities such as TB and respiratory fit testing, annual flu campaigns, and chemotherapy surveillance. The position also responds to employee exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious diseases, and hazardous medications, providing assessment, counseling, investigation, follow-up, and coordination of prophylaxis and testing with Infection Prevention and Control and Infectious Disease. The role develops and presents education on employee health practices, trains new employees during orientation, and develops or disseminates policies and procedures based on applicable laws and guidance. The RN keeps current with developments in nursing, employee health, and infection control.

Requirements

Licensed Registered Nursing through the Louisiana State Board of Nursing.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support Health Care Provider certification.

Responsibilities

Promote and support LCMC Health performance-improvement initiatives and compliance with regulatory and accrediting requirements.
Participate in or lead interdisciplinary teams, including teams addressing emergencies, pandemics, and disasters.
Document employee health education, vaccinations, and screenings according to policy.
Educate and counsel employees on identifying, reducing, and eliminating workplace health and safety risks.
Analyze data to identify trends and control health and safety risks; implement policy changes as appropriate.
Plan and implement evidence-based programs and initiatives and evaluate their health and economic impact.
Coordinate pre-employment health screening and clearance for new hires.
Maintain the employee health program in accordance with established policies and procedures.
Review employee immunization records and administer vaccinations as indicated using CDC guidelines.
Conduct and coordinate TB surveillance, respiratory fit-testing surveillance, annual flu campaigns, and chemotherapy surveillance.
Provide education on bloodborne pathogen exposures.
Coordinate with Infection Prevention and Control on evaluation and follow-up of employee infectious-disease exposures.
Develop and disseminate employee health policies and procedures based on current laws and guidance from TJC, CMS, CDC, and OSHA.
Establish and maintain employee health records in accordance with state and federal laws while protecting confidentiality and privacy.
Review accidental needlesticks and blood or body-fluid exposures; coordinate and follow up on blood/body-fluid and hazardous-medication exposures.
Counsel and educate employees on exposure processes and prevention.
Review documented exposures to potentially communicable or infectious diseases and agents; provide initial counseling, assessment, investigation, follow-up, and counseling.
Coordinate appropriate prophylaxis and follow-up testing with Infectious Disease according to CDC and OSHA recommendations.
Develop and present educational programs on employee health practices and issues when appropriate.
Conduct employee health training during new employee orientation.
Keep informed of developments in nursing, employee health, and infection control through professional organizations.