About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Participate in clinic nurse duties
- Participate in administrative nurse duties
- Precept new staff and nursing students
- Follow up on abnormal results related to breast and cervical cancer screening tests
- Work with community partners and providers to facilitate breast and cervical cancer screening education and referrals
- Assist during physical exams and procedures as appropriate
- Provide full scope contraceptive counseling
- Administer injections
- Follow up on abnormal labs and missed appointments
- Work in other clinical areas across the organization as required
- Help the agency respond to a public health emergency outside of normal business hours, which may include outbreak investigations, staffing mass dispensing or immunization clinics, providing disaster relief for incidents as they arise, or any public health response requested by the Health Director
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of, and skill in, the application of principles and techniques employed in the field of public health, general nursing, and women’s health nursing, specifically contraception and family planning services
- General knowledge of current health disparities and community resources related to public health
- Ability to plan, coordinate, and oversee the work of others
- Ability to deal tactfully with others and to exercise good judgment in appraising situations and make decisions
- Ability to work in partnership with patients and other service providers to elicit needed information and to maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to accurately record services rendered and to interpret and explain records, reports, and medical instructions
- Considerable knowledge of and ability to apply the principles and practices of public health
- Adequate computer skills to allow communication, patient record documentation, and accessing of information
- Ability to be flexible and receptive to change in dealing with changing patient populations and changing program requirements
- Graduated from a four-year college or university with a B.S. in Nursing which includes a Public Health Nursing rotation and two years of Public Health nursing experience; or a Master’s in Public Health and graduation from a school of professional nursing and two years of professional nursing experience; or graduation from a school of professional nursing and three years of professional nursing experience including two years of Public Health nursing experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience
- Licensed to practice as a registered nurse in North Carolina by the North Carolina Board of Nursing
