What are the responsibilities and job description for the Employee Health Nurse position at Sandhills Medical Foundation?
Employee Health Nurse
Duties & Responsibilities:
Required Education, Certifications, Skills & Abilities:
Additional Requirements:
Training Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
(Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. has been providing quality, comprehensive health care since 1977. We are a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving residents of Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and Sumter counties. The mission of Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. is to be responsive to community healthcare needs by providing quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare.
Job Summary:
The employee health nurse is responsible for providing nursing care to SMF staff in a professional and courteous manner. Provides the following services including but not limited to the following: minor first aid, administrating injections, administrating tuberculin skin tests, communicating with other departments in the organization. The employee health services are under the directive and guidance of the Chief Medial Officer and/or the Clinical Director to ensure the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times. In addition, the employee health nurse is part of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and is expected to be familiar with the philosophy, goals and objectives of the PCMH.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
The employee health nurse is responsible for providing nursing care to SMF staff in a professional and courteous manner. Provides the following services including but not limited to the following: minor first aid, administrating injections, administrating tuberculin skin tests, communicating with other departments in the organization. The employee health services are under the directive and guidance of the Chief Medial Officer and/or the Clinical Director to ensure the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times. In addition, the employee health nurse is part of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and is expected to be familiar with the philosophy, goals and objectives of the PCMH.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Support healthcare team members as needed.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Communicate with employees as needed.
- Monitor the compliance of clinical employees with isolation techniques and other infection control procedures that relate to the prevention of infection in patients and/or employees.
- Ensure adherence to infection control standards of external agencies such as DHEC, HRSA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Complete hand hygiene and disinfection audits.
- Covid tracking.
- Submission of reportable conditions to state and federal agencies.
- Ordering test for sick employees.
- Exposure management (Needle stick injuries).
- Contact physician if pep needed.
- Administer Vaccines and Immunizations/Titers.
- Follow up with employees related to illness.
- Provide employee health overview for new hires.
- Two step tuberculin skin testing.
- Quantiferon for hew hires.
- Create employee health files.
- Complete Annual DHEC 300 forms for each site.
- Annual TB Questionnaires for all employees.
- N-95 respirator fit testing.
- Workplace assessments to identify and mitigate health risks.
- Maintain health and safety records in accordance with regulatory standards.
- Conduct assessments at each site monthly to ensure workplace safety and health compliance.
- Engage in teaching and training initiatives related to employee health and safety.
- Effectively serve on relevant committees as needed.
- Participate in surveys and onsite visits as needed.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Required Education, Certifications, Skills & Abilities:
- Current license for Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse in SC
- 3-5 years clinical nursing experience
- Occupational health and safety experience and OSHA training preferred
- Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation certificate (CPR)
- Ability to work cooperatively with patients and health care staff members in the performance of assigned duties
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and privacy in accordance with HIPAA and SMF policies
- Remains current with the trends and professional encounters
Additional Requirements:
- Must possess valid driver's license
- Must be willing to work with SMF EMR
- Must be willing to work at different SMF locations if requested
Training Requirements:
- The employee health nurse will be responsible for attending all mandatory training including evidence-based approaches to proactively addressing the needs of patients and families in this community, cultural competency, effective communication, care coordination, OSHA, HIPPA and HRSA, etc.
Physical Requirements:
(Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)
- Ability to sit and stand for long periods of time
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer
- Ability to physically write and visually read
- Computer literate in PC environment including the ability to enter and access data relevant to SMF EHR system
Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. has been providing quality, comprehensive health care since 1977. We are a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) serving residents of Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, and Sumter counties. The mission of Sandhills Medical Foundation, Inc. is to be responsive to community healthcare needs by providing quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare.
- 401k
- 401k matching
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- PTO and Sick Leave
- Employee EAP Program
