Employee Health Nurse - RN or LPN (FTD)

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

1. 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
2. Medical history assessing communicable disease history and conditions that increase risk (e.g., long-term steroid therapy, immunocompromise)
3. Assesses tuberculosis status and provide skin testing and follow-up as needed
4. Provide antibody titer testing
5. Evaluate changes in employee health status as needed
6. Outbreak and exposure evaluation: Evaluate employee susceptibility to disease, type and duration of exposure, availability of prophylaxis
7. Recommends communicable disease work restrictions based on published accepted standards.
8. In conjunction with the clinical director, facilitate communicable disease and blood borne pathogen exposure treatment and provide follow-up counseling and testing
9. Assesses TB exposures and provides follow-up testing and referral as needed
10. Monitor and repot TB sero-conversions
11. Monitor compliance with prophylaxis medications
12. Send employee health records to human resources
13. Educate employees about immunizations
14. Provide immunizations
15. Track series immunizations and provide as needed
16. Monitor exposures and provide prophylaxis treatment as needed
17. Complete exposure lab draws for employee
18. Review exposure results on patients and employees
19. Inform employee of results
20. Provide repeat lab draws with serial testing / tracking (6wk, 12wk, 6 month, 12 month)
21. Provide exposure education for employees and patients
22. Maintain OSHA 300/301 Log
23. Provide OSHA log for posting annually
24. Complete reporting for employee injuries / exposures / lost days / restricted days.
25. Track lost time related to injuries
26. Maintain needle stick log
27. Maintain exposure log
28. Maintain employee injury log
29. Maintain employee illness log
30. Compile employee health reports
31. Report employee health activities to the Infection Control and Environment of Care Committees
32. Monitor community and personnel outbreaks
33. Track employees with repeat injuries, communicate with director / VP
34. File injuries / exposures with Workers Compensation Provider
35. Evaluate and trend notice only injury reports
36. Communicate with employee and their insurance case worker
37. Track progress of injured employee through Concentra
38. Monitor work restrictions, advise directors / human resources of employee clearance to return to work
39. Screen employees at work and advise pharmacy if medication may be dispensed to employee on the clock
40. Develop and update employee health policies and procedures
41. Keep current with CDC guidelines