**Extra Help opportunities are immediately available.**

The County of Madera is establishing a list of qualified applicants for this position. Applications will be accepted continuously until otherwise noted and the list will be used to fill current vacancies in this classification. 

Under direct supervision in a learning capacity, to provide nursing care for clients in clinic or field nursing settings; to assist clinicians in the examination and treatment of clients; and to perform other duties as required.

Knowledge of:

• Principles and skills for the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and disability.
• General nursing skills and practices in the areas of maternal and child health, adult health, medical and surgical nursing, and communicable disease control.
• Nutrition and preventive health practices.
• Cultural differences in health care.
• Child growth and development.
• Principles of the nursing process as applied to a client.
• Use and effects of medicines.
• Basic CPR and First Aid methods and techniques.
• Medical terminology.
• Clinic practices and equipment.

Skill to:

• Operate a motor vehicle safely. 
• Learn to operate clinical test devices and equipment.

Ability to:

• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Learn to plan, organize and carry out nursing activities in an assigned area.
• Learn to perform clinical tasks such as venipunctures, giving injections, administering medications and assisting with examinations.
• Learn to keep accurate, concise and legally appropriate records and reports.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with other health professionals, co-workers, and the general public.
• Learn to use public health nursing practices.
• Maintain all standards of nursing practice according to the Nurse Practice Act.
• Maintain confidentiality of client records and information.
• Learn and utilize computerized software programs incorporated in clinical practices and other assignments.
• Learn and utilize basic client eligibility criteria for referral/resource agencies such as emergency assistance programs, women's shelters, WIC, alcohol and other drug programs.
• Learn and utilize ordinances, rules, laws, and regulations governing public health services and nursing practices.
• Learn and utilize information about the causes and modes of transmission and methods of control for communicable diseases.

Experience and Training:Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities would be qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills, and abilities would be:
Experience:
No experience is necessary.
Training:
Possession of a valid Interim Permit to practice professional nursing issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing,
OR
Proof of completion of the majority of academic nursing requirements of the California Board of Registered Nursing.
Special Requirements:
Essential duties require the following physical skills and work environment:
Ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, twist, and lift 25 lbs.; exposure to cold, heat, noise, outdoors, chemicals, explosive materials, and infectious diseases.