Nurse Family Partnership - Nurse Home Visitor
About The Position
Wake County Public Health is looking for a Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) Nurse Home Visitor (NHV) to join the team! This role involves supporting first-time mothers, improving maternal and child health outcomes, and making a lasting impact in the community. As a Nurse Home Visitor (NHV) with the Nurse-Family Partnership program, you will build meaningful relationships with pregnant women and their families, providing evidence-based nursing care, education, and support from pregnancy through early childhood. In this role, you will deliver comprehensive community health nursing services to eligible families while maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice and fidelity to the Nurse-Family Partnership model. The Nurse Home Visitor reports directly to the NFP Nurse Supervisor and plays a vital role in helping families achieve healthier futures.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited school of Nursing
- No specific experience required
- RN - Registered Nurse - North Carolina Board of Nursing or Compact state
- BPT - Bloodborne Pathogens Training
- CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation
- AED - Automated External Defibrillator
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Equivalent education and experience are accepted
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) strongly preferred
- Experience working with high risk pregnant patients
- Spanish language proficiency
- Maternal and/or pediatric experience
- Home visiting experience
- Public Health experience
- Ability to identify problems, determine possible solutions, and actively work to resolve the issues
- Ability to provide counseling on an individual basis to achieve individual service goals
- Ability to make decisions without regard to personal prejudices, biases, and experiences
- Ability to use appropriate interpersonal skills and methods to reduce tension and resolve conflict
- Ability to actively participate as a member of a team to move toward the completion of goals
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of applicable policies and procedures
- Ability to maintain conditions that ensure a healthy and safe working environment
Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains community relationships to support client referrals
- Conducts community outreach of potential program clients
- Collaborates with all multidisciplinary team members and with a patient focus to implement the identified plan of care and facilitate and maximize client health care outcomes
- Consults and collaborates with the Nurse Supervisor and the NFP team during case conferences in the interest of providing optimal client services
- Monitors the patients progress, intervening as necessary and appropriate to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are client focused
- Facilitates postpartum/prenatal depression screening/counseling with clients and makes referrals for ongoing services as appropriate
- Maintains a positive relationship with physicians, nurses, other health providers, social workers, clients and their families to ensure that each client receives optimum care
- Interacts with other members of Nurse Family Partnership program team in ongoing program development implementation and evaluation
- Maintains knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws and guidelines that impact nursing practice
- Stays informed on current health care developments to provide safe, quality nurse home visiting services
- Completes all required NFP education
- Actively engages in skill building to meet all NFP Home Visitor competency requirements
Benefits
- Influenza immunization is a condition of initial and continued employment, subject to compliance with federal law
- Actively supports and participates in department emergency preparedness and response activities, which may include temporary changes in responsibilities and working hours.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
