Registered Nurse Health Job Description
Registered nurse health
provides episodic nursing care including administration of medications and provide treatment by assessing health status of individuals, recording related health data, evaluating and adjusting care in conjunction with other providers.
Registered Nurse Health Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Conducts comprehensive patient assessments incorporating psychosocial and physiological status health behaviors, compliance with therapeutic regime and technical procedures
Provide prompt, appropriate clinical care to all employees in conformance with company policies, clinical protocols, state regulations and ethical standards
Support provider and clinic operations as needed
Manage the care of patients experiencing behavioral health issues and psychiatric and mental health disorders including substance abuse and addiction
Provide behavioral health assessments, clinical treatment including medication administration, education, and case management services
Delegate and supervise personnel that participate in the provision of care to ensure that patient needs and expected outcomes are met
Patient Care & Service
Treating minor work related injuries for staff employees
Coordinating wellness events and Initiatives to include Diabetes awareness, Smoke Cessation, flu clinics and other employee events
Pre placement physicals to include hearing, vision, drug screens and pulmonary function testing
Registered Nurse Health Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Registered Nurse Health
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, LP, UPMC, ANA
Education for Registered Nurse Health
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the registered nurse health job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, School of Nursing, Graduate, Education, Science, Associates, Nursing Education, Department of Education, Health, Management
Skills for Registered Nurse Health
Desired skills for registered nurse health include:
Wellness programming and individual engagement strategies
Health care administration
Medical ethics
Principles and practices of nursing
Procedures
State and federal regulations related to hospitals and other health care facilities
Principles and practices of health care administration
Standards for patient care and professional nursing practice
State and federal regulations related to hospitals and nursing homes
Unit and departmental policies
Desired experience for registered nurse health includes:
Assists prescribers in medication group visits, and provides follow-up screening and education for patients in intensive outpatient program
May lead educational groups as needed
Triages emergency situations and initiates appropriate nursing interventions and referral
Administers oral and injectable medications as directed by legally authorized physician or advance practice nurse prescriber
BSN degree is strongly preferred
Certification in Psychiatric & Mental Health nursing by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center is preferred
Registered Nurse Health Examples
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Registered Nurse Health Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of registered nurse health. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for registered nurse health
- Facilitates referrals to other agencies and refers patient for the other VNA services as needed
- Instructs and supervises home health aides according to agency policies
- Instructs primary caregivers and volunteers as needed
- Participates in after hours coverage as needed
- Provides for symptom management, comfort measures, and services related to end of life care
- Provides support at the time of death and during the bereavement period
- Recognizes own needs for support and participates in team support program
- Anticipate potential crisis situations, using available resources, plan and implement preventative measures
- May be assigned to cover absent group leaders to maintain patient care in the mall
- Conducts new hire and annual screenings to include health assessment, Tuberculosis skin testing/questionnaire, review of test results and provides immunizations as required
Qualifications for registered nurse health
- National Provider Identifier (NPI) & Taxonomy code required at time of hire preferred
- Applicants must have a minimum experience of 1 year of hospital acute care
- Acceptance in program requires a two year commitment to the facility
- Minimum two years related experience (family medicine, occupational medicine, acute care, internal medicine, community health, emergency/urgent care, home health) RN with past military medic experience would be considered
- Graduation from a four-year college or university with a B.S
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in Washington State at time of hire, and Oregon State within 3 months of hire
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a registered nurse health. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for registered nurse health
- Conducts infection surveillance as related to healthcare workers
- Utilizing the nursing process develop and implement a plan of care and demonstrate leadership to ensure all patient/family needs are met, considering age specific factors
- Contribute to the efficient operation of the patient care area, delegating responsibilities to appropriate members of the care delivery team based upon an understanding of others' roles, scope of practice, knowledge, and capabilities to ensure optimal utilization of personnel
- Promote a professional and collaborative approach to patient care, communicating appropriately with all members of the care team while working cooperatively to resolve problems and ensure excellence in clinical practice
- Actively participate in initiatives to ensure quality outcomes of patient care
- Maintain required knowledge and skills
- Demonstrate skills and judgment necessary to manage routine, urgent and crisis psychiatric situations by group therapy methods in the context of a therapeutic milieu
- Help to support two LPNs for Occupational Health Medical surveillance
- Facilitate Workers’ Compensation, ADA requests, and assist in the interactive process for short/long term disability cases, including FMLA
- Guide and direct all referrals to outside healthcare providers and services as needed
Qualifications for registered nurse health
- Conducts office visits and extensive telephone callbacks for triage and assessment of patients requiring follow-up care
- Behavioral experience preferred
- Experience working as a Charge RN or Relief Charge RN in a inpatient psychiatric unit
- Knowledge of psychotropic medications, psychiatric conditions and general treatment
- Behavioral health nursing experience preferred in an acute care setting
- Experience in occupational health preferred
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a registered nurse health. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for registered nurse health
- Collaborate with Environmental Health and Safety, Operations, and Human Resources to develop operations, programs, and services by providing content expertise
- Administer job related vaccinations per standing protocols
- Member of Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) and participate in trainings
- Provide orientation of clinic services to new colleagues
- Conducts post offer, pre-hire screening of new hire candidates to include but not limited to the initial health assessment, appropriate department testing and follow-up, lab work review, vaccine updates and drug testing
- Coordinates and administers network -wide medical surveillance and immunization programs
- Develops, administers, monitors and evaluates employee health initiatives, policy and procedure review, program upgrades and continuous updating of knowledge and programming relative to federal, state and local regulations and accreditation standards
- Serves as an advisor for developing and evaluating occupational health and safety services network wide
- Analyzes and provides recommendations to prevent health effects from hazardous exposures
- Plans, coordinates and conducts Employee Health educational programming including but not limited to new hire orientation, annual education, wellness initiatives and accident and injury prevention
Qualifications for registered nurse health
- American Nurses Association (ANA) psychiatric certification
- 37 1/2 hour work week with rotating weekends 3pm-11pm shift
- Nurses primarily perform medication administration, assessment, documentation, work with doctors and orders, triage, vitals, CIWA/COWS, medical case management, occasional crisis response
- Registered Nurse license in State of NJ (Active and in Good Standing)
- At least one – two (1-2) years of clinical experience as a Registered Nurse
- Registered Nurse in State of Florida (active and good standing)
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of registered nurse health. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for registered nurse health
- Facilitates and/or co-leads individual and group therapy sessions for patients
- Recommends reasonable accommodations for disabled employees
- Implementing and evaluating the patient plan of care
- Influencing care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team by actively participating in interdisciplinary treatment planning
- Executing the patient's plan of care by administering medication and other treatment regiments, educating patients, family members and assessing resources in the community to assist the patient and family upon discharge from acute and residential settings
- Managing psychiatric emergencies, such as threatening aggressive, hostile, psychotic, suicidal and homicidal patients
- Administers and monitors medications
- Completes a thorough initial assessment and develops initial interventions and/or care plans for each patient
- Completes all documentation relevant to activities
- Demonstrates effective therapy and teaching skills in leading therapeutic and education groups
Qualifications for registered nurse health
- MD state RN license (active and in good standing)
- Must have occupational health experience
- Travel nurse experience a plus
- TB and medical surveillance experience
- Registered Registered Nurse
- Must be able to work 3 days per week and be flex with hours
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a registered nurse health. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for registered nurse health
- Participates as member of the treatment team to develop and implement multi-disciplinary treatment plans, monitor treatment progress, and plan for discharge
- Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with specialists as required, and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient outcomes
- Supervises emergency nursing interventions as needed
- Supports the social worker and discharge planner in development of a comprehensive discharge plan
- Accurately documents all data into the associated electronic medical record (OHM)
- Collaborates with NP/PA, Risk Management, WC TPA, and medical providers to monitor the progress of case management in terms of established outcomes to coordinate treatment plan, ensure appropriate referrals and authorizations are obtained and optimum care and case management is achieved
- Develops, plans recommends and helps implement wellness programs to improve the health and work-life balance of associates
- Implements health compliance programs required for hospital workers as identified by federal, state and policy guidelines
- Liaises with entities/departments to evaluate the safety of the workplace and collaborates with managers in injury prevention measures and departmental action planning
- Manages the temporary modified duty program to ensure safe and timely return to work
Qualifications for registered nurse health
- Minimum of 10 Years of clinical experience in an Occupational Health, Urgent Care, Emergency Room, or Primary Care/Family Practice setting
- Registered Nurse license in State of MD (Active and in Good Standing)
- At least one – two (1-2) years of experience in a clinical management role
- Occupational Medicine experience preferred
- Minimum of three-five (3-5) years' experience as a Registered Nurse in an Occupational Health, Emergency Room, or Urgent Care setting
- Knowledge and experience with disability management, basic ergonomics, ADA, HIPAA, FMLA, OSHA, Workers' Compensation, and medical surveillance regulatory requirement