Registered Nurse, Employee Health & Wellbeing

LMH Health•Lawrence, KS

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About The Position

The Employee Health Nurse helps to ensure the health of LMH Health associates through management of employee injury and illness follow-up and reporting, staff education, and personal protective equipment and immunization programs. Incumbent serves as a resource to staff with questions regarding communicable illnesses.

Requirements

Registered Nurse in state of Kansas
Combination of 3 to 4 years of workers’ compensation case management and Employee Health experience

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing
Prior experience in a hospital/acute care setting

Responsibilities

Advise and research current best practices for employee health policy and procedures.
Manage employee injury internal investigation and reporting process; regularly communicate with workers’ compensation carrier and evaluate accommodations and return to work options for associates with restricted duties.
Collaborate with Human Resources regarding these issues and other non-work related medical restrictions and employee health related concerns.
Develop therapeutic relationships with associates promoting decision making based on the assessment of their medical histories, symptoms, examinations, diagnosis, conditions and treatments.
Communicate and collaborate concisely and continuously among clinical team, including physicians, both verbally and in documentation focusing on the associates identified problems and needs to optimize their health outcomes.
Investigate, follow-up, consult and problem solve with associates regarding infection control questions or concerns.
Track, trend and report data regarding Infection Prevention and Environment of Care Committee requirements.
Trend employee illnesses/injuries to identify safety and health issues.
Collect and report data for employee health topics, such as lifting practices.
Collaborate with Human Resources and other leaders as situations require.
Exemplifies professionalism: applies lifelong learning; contributes to the science of nursing; participates in governance; shares knowledge to expand the scale and scope of best practices with others; builds the ethical, moral and regulatory base for best practices and processes of patient and unit care.
Performs other duties as assigned in line with current basic nursing scope.