Public Health Nurse - Nurse Family Partnership Program
About The Position
The Department of Public Health has an opening for a Public Health Nurse (PHN) to join our Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Team at the Kent Public Health clinic. Nurse-Family Partnership is a community health program that partners a person pregnant with their first child with a registered nurse. The nurse provides home or community visits from pregnancy through the child's second birthday. Through this transformative and challenging life phase, our nurses offer the support, information, and resources their clients desire as they build the lives they want for themselves and their children. Components of the program include a provision of home visiting services to a caseload of 25 families per PHN, engagement in weekly reflective supervision sessions, and participation in weekly team meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in nursing science or a graduate level nursing degree of MSN, DNP or PhD from an accredited school of nursing
- Current Washington State license as a Registered Nurse or Multi-State Licensure
- Documentation of current BLS-CPR for Health Care Providers. CPR/AED HeartSaver courses do not meet this requirement
- Washington state driver's license
- Pass background and credentialing
- Employees are required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information as defined in State and Federal Law.
- Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office) and web-based enabled tools; therefore, candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform functions associated with on-going work.
- Employees are required to adhere to OSHA/WISHA guidelines including but not limited to completing their mandatory trainings on time and obtaining required immunizations.
- Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions.
Nice To Haves
- This position is open to all minimally qualified nurses which includes new to practice and re-entry nurses.
Responsibilities
- Obtain and document health history and make nursing diagnosis based on nursing assessment.
- Documentation requires electronic charting: EPIC, and in an NFP database.
- Provide expertise regarding public health nursing scope, practice and policy at many levels.
- Provide support services to the client that links/refers, to other Health Department staff and community providers/partners, while assuring access and continuity of care.
- Provide program planning, monitoring local work plans and progress toward program goals.
- Participate in quality assurance activities to meet laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Provide training, orientation and education to staff, clients, students and the community.
- Provide birth control and pregnancy options counseling to clients as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- fully-benefited
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
