About This Role
This Public Health Nurse works to protect and improve the health of Umatilla County residents through prevention, education, and the provision of clinical and maternal-child health services. The role involves working in both the Nurse-Family Partnership and reproductive health and immunization clinic, providing prenatal and family education, case management, and nursing assessments with new parents and infants/toddlers. It also delivers reproductive healthcare services, administers vaccines, and conducts STI screening and treatment in a clinical setting, fostering deep client relationships while maintaining clinical skills.
Responsibilities
- Provide home visits to women and their families eligible for the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) Program and other home visit programs as indicated
- Complete all required initial and ongoing NFP training and follow the NFP model when implementing home visiting services with clients
- Adhere to nursing process and the NFP model of home visitation
- Carry a caseload of 12-15 clients for the NFP program
- Support policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of UCo Health
- Participate in community coalition in support of UCo Health home visit programs as requested/required
- Promote public awareness of all UCo Health home visit programs as requested/required
- Develop and maintain community relationships to support client referrals
- Complete all required NFP education
- Develop therapeutic relationships, utilize concepts of reflection and motivational interviewing with women and their families in a home visiting environment
- Perform home visiting in accordance with appropriate model and guidelines
- Follow nursing process in implementing home visit models (including NFP) into nursing practice
- Assess physical, emotional, social, and environmental needs of women and their families
- Assist women and their families in establishing goals and outcomes
- Provide education, support, and referral resources in assisting women and their families in attaining their targeted goals
- Consult and collaborate with other professionals involved in providing services to women and families
- Formulate nursing diagnoses based on nursing assessment and client goals
- Evaluate client progress toward stated goals and UCo Health outcomes
- Plan home visits in accordance with client goals and NFP outcomes
- Actively engage in professional development to meet all NFP Nurse Home Visitor competency requirements
- Meet with Nursing Supervisor weekly for clinical supervision
- Utilize reflective practice in supervisory sessions
- Schedule joint home visits with Nursing Supervisor on an as needed basis, but at a minimum of quarterly