Perform the functions and duties necessary to ensure employees meet and maintain the regulatory and physical health requirements to support the facility needs. Provide initial screening, ongoing job-related health maintenance, injury reporting, tracking, and required record keeping. Interacts with Workers Compensation Carrier, state and federal agencies, and accrediting bodies as required.
Primary Duties
- Pre-employment health history evaluation including susceptibility to communicable disease (MMR, varicella, hepatitis B), immunization status, pregnancy, compromised immune status, absence of infectious disease, and/or latex sensitivity
- Medical history assessing communicable disease history and conditions that increase risk (e.g., long-term steroid therapy, immunocompromise)
- Assesses tuberculosis status and provide skin testing and follow-up as needed
- Provide antibody titer testing
- Evaluate changes in employee health status as needed
- Outbreak and exposure evaluation: Evaluate employee susceptibility to disease, type and duration of exposure, availability of prophylaxis
- Recommends communicable disease work restrictions based on published accepted standards.
- In conjunction with the clinical director, facilitate communicable disease and blood borne pathogen exposure treatment and provide follow-up counseling and testing
- Assesses TB exposures and provides follow-up testing and referral as needed
- Monitor and repot TB sero-conversions
- Monitor compliance with prophylaxis medications
- Send employee health records to human resources
- Educate employees about immunizations
- Provide immunizations
- Track series immunizations and provide as needed
- Monitor exposures and provide prophylaxis treatment as needed
- Complete exposure lab draws for employee
- Review exposure results on patients and employees
- Inform employee of results
- Provide repeat lab draws with serial testing / tracking (6wk, 12wk, 6 month, 12 month)
- Provide exposure education for employees and patients
- Maintain OSHA 300/301 Log
- Provide OSHA log for posting annually
- Complete reporting for employee injuries / exposures / lost days / restricted days.
- Track lost time related to injuries
- Maintain needle stick log
- Maintain exposure log
- Maintain employee injury log
- Maintain employee illness log
- Compile employee health reports
- Report employee health activities to the Infection Control and Environment of Care Committees
- Monitor community and personnel outbreaks
- Track employees with repeat injuries, communicate with director / VP
- File injuries / exposures with Workers Compensation Provider
- Evaluate and trend notice only injury reports
- Communicate with employee and their insurance case worker
- Track progress of injured employee through Concentra
- Monitor work restrictions, advise directors / human resources of employee clearance to return to work
- Screen employees at work and advise pharmacy if medication may be dispensed to employee on the clock
- Develop and update employee health policies and procedures
- Keep current with CDC guidelines
Qualifications/Specifications:
- Education: Graduate of an accredited Licensed Practical Nursing program.
- Licensure/ Certification: Current state licensure as a Practical Nurse. Licensure from a state within the Nursing Compact. Current BLS certification required within 30 days of employment.
- Experience: 1 year experience as a nurse. Prefer at least year experience in employee health and workman’s comp.