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Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
- Interview patients and review records to ascertain medical history, current physical condition, symptoms of illness, etc
- Obtain routine information such as height, weight, temperature, pulse, and blood pressure and provide basic physical assessment.
- Assess physical condition of patient using observation, inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
- Assess the physical, social, and emotional needs of patients and families in clinics or in their homes.
- Develop a health care plan in cooperation with the patient/family, significant others, and members of the health care team.
- Formulate, direct and/or execute plan of care and any needed interventions.
- Provide nursing care, which may include immunizations, phlebotomy, collecting urine, hemotocrit tests, routine tests, specialized tests, vital signs, pregnancy tests, dipstick urinalysis, and prepare other specimens.
- Counsel client and family concerning health assessment and care.
- Teach and counsel patients, families, and groups on the prevention of disease, disability, hygiene, and health maintenance.
- Refer patients and families to other services or for follow-up treatment based on assessment of health care needs.
- Maintain complete and accurate records, logs, and statistics of patient status and care provided.
- Monitor work to ensure quality assurance or other standards are met.
- Prioritize the workload and referrals made to other co-workers/services.
- Assist in the development of protocol, policies, and procedures.
- May identify patients/groups with potential high risk of physical and emotional illness through analysis of statistical records.
- May conduct investigations and provide instructions in preventive measure of communicable diseases, immunization programs and casework.
- May coordinate daily clerical activities including setting patient appointments and scheduling providers.
- May maintain patient follow-up procedures, including broken appointment and abnormal lab follow-up procedures, immunization tickler/tracking system, abnormal laboratory results, and maintains patient tickler file.
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Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of public health nursing.
- Knowledge of information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat injuries and diseases.
- Knowledge of related cultural, social, environmental and economic forces in family and group relationships.
- Knowledge of medicines and their application for treatments.
- Knowledge of holistic health care treatments.
- Knowledge of instruments and equipment used in providing routine and specialized patient care.
- Knowledge of current community resources available.
- Skill in providing nursing care, customer service, and personal services
- Skill in setting priorities and making judgments concerning health care.
- Skill in teaching and interviewing techniques.
- Skill in effectively instructing and directing the work of others.
- Skill in recording and reporting accurate information.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, families, community groups and organizations, physicians, City employees, and the general public.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas.
- Ability to read and understand information and ideas presented.
- Ability to perceive pertinent details.
- Ability to record and report accurate information
- Ability to interpret symptoms and assess the patient's status
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