Community Health Nurse - Extra Help Community Health Nurse

Job Title

This recruitment is being established to obtain a current eligible list for both Full Time and Extra-Help vacancies. Extra-Help are not entitled to county benefits and are limited to a maximum of 25 hours per week. Extra-Help pay is $33.93 per hour. Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides nursing advice to patients; administers medications and performs assessments.
• May provide case management services and utilization review for programs including CSS, CHDP, MCA, Outreach, Medi-Cal Targeted case management, Indigent Health Care and other programs.
• Will assist clients to gain access to needed medical, social, educational and other services.
• Promotes the control of communicable disease by early detection and preventive treatment.
• Records communicable diseases as prescribed by State and County laws and regulations.
• Makes home visits to follow up on identified at-risk mother and infants; teaches parenting skills.
• Functions as an "On-Call" nurse to give information and make appropriate referrals by telephone.
• Explains physician's instructions and recommendations to patient and patient's families.
• Promotes preventative medicine by providing health education and conducting presentations.
• May provide grief counseling to parents in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
• Engage in outreach and other activities to enhance services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: One (1) year of professional nursing experience. (Possession of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, or a closely related field may be substituted for the one (1) year of required experience.) License: Possession of a valid California Registered Nurse license. Possess a valid California driver's license at time of appointment and maintain. Some positions in this classification will be subject to criminal history background checks pursuant to the human resources rules and regulations, section 2, b.

Essential Functions

• Operate a personal computer and other office equipment.
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
• Analyze data, interpret directions, procedures and regulations, and develop appropriate responses.
• Perform job duties under stressful conditions and respond appropriately to situations.
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations.
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
• Frequently lift, carry, reach, push, pull, twist and manipulate large and small objects.
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination; normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
• Frequent use of data entry device including repetitive hand and arm motion.
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 40 pounds.
• Frequent public contact, concentration in noisy conditions, exposure to emergency situations.
• Occasional exposure to hazardous materials, cold and heat.
• Regular attendance is an essential function.

Knowledge of:

• Principles, methods, and procedures of general nursing and of public health nursing.
• Causes, means of transmission, and method of control of communicable disease, including venereal disease, AIDS, and tuberculosis.
• Means of promotion child and maternal health and life, including the care of handicapped children.
• Sociological and cultural problems involved in public health nursing.
• Community resources and demography.
• State laws relating to reporting child/adult abuse cases.

Ability to:

• Educate and work with patients and their families in the various Public Health Program.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
• Effectively communicate in writing to develop reports and complete patient charts.
• Effectively communicate orally to make presentations to patient, families, and community groups.
• Listen and counsel patients and families on sensitive and confidential issues.
• Detect health problems and assist in intervention to promote optimal health care.
• Administer and review results of skin test for tuberculosis.
• Administer hearing, vision, EKG and blood pressure testing and record results.
• Draw blood for laboratory testing.
• Maintain confidential material.