Nurse Family Partnership - RN

Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. (Valley-Wide) welcomes and is committed to all patients and populations within our large multi-county service area throughout southern Colorado. As a non-profit, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we provide premier primary and preventive care you can trust at our 34 service sites strategically located throughout multiple rural counties.

The Nurse Family Partnership Nurse Home Visitor-Fremont reports to the Nurse Family Partnership Nurse Supervisor and is responsible for supporting the mission of the organization through competently performing the primary responsibilities of the position. The Nurse Home Visitor is responsible for providing comprehensive community health nursing services to women and their families, enrolled in the Nurse Family Partnership, in accord with NFP program goals, objectives and protocols. Age of Clients: Women of childbearing age, approximately 13 45 years. Infants and children, birth through 2 years.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Administrative Duties:

• Assesses physical, emotional, social and environmental needs of women and their families as they relate to health and life course development.
• Assists women and their families to establish realistic goals and measurable outcomes for promoting their health and life course development.
• Provides counseling and instruction to assist women and their families in attaining targeted goals, in areas including prenatal and postpartum care, nutrition, parenting, well childcare, family planning, and special health problems.
• Evaluates women and families progress toward targeted goals; revises plan of care as appropriate.
• Develops a working relationship with women and their families that promotes problem solving competence.
• Promotes involvement of other family members in pregnancy, birth and early childcare.
• Links women and families with community resources that are relevant to their specific needs.
• Consults and collaborates with other professionals involved in providing services to women and families on their caseload.
• Records nursing activities within 24 hours of each visit and turns in paperwork for data entry weekly.
• Provides feedback for revising protocols related to program implementation.
• Assumes responsibility for ongoing learning in relation to program implementation.
• Participates actively on the Nurse-Family Partnership Team.
• Successfully completes all required training.
• Assists with outreach activities for geographic jurisdiction.
• Maintains caseload per program protocol.
• Maintains established frequency of visits with families per program protocols.
• Maintains average length of home visits of 60 minutes or more.
• Maintains appropriate proportion of time on Content Domains during different phases of program.
• Completes required visits per month per program protocol.
• Meets with Supervisor weekly and completes joint visits per program protocol. (Exceptions per supervisor discretion.)
• Provides timely follow-up on referrals into program-i.e. telephone contact within 48 hours, home visit within 10 working days.
• Licensed Staff:
• Performs office nurse duties within scope of licensure as needed
• Licensed staff will need to be privileged and credentialed as an Other Licensed or Certified Health Care Practitioner (OLCP).
• A competency check must be completed at the time of the credentialing process.
• Performs related duties as assigned or required

Qualifications & Skills:

• Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing, Colorado RN required
• 2 years professional work experience with childbearing women and children, preferably in a community health setting preferred.
• Bilingual skills desirable
• Ability to establish interpersonal relationships with women and families from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds.

Benefits:

• FREE Health Insurance (Other healthcare coverage plan options available)
• MASA Employer paid Air Ambulance Coverage
• Employer paid Basic Life, LTD, STD
• Retirement Match
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, HRA, FSA, DCA, Retirement Plan
• Paid Leave

Visit our website athttps://valley-widehealth.org/careers/for more information.

Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer:We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Employee Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)