JOB POSTING NUMBER: 62795
Quality Staffing, Inc., also doing business as Goddard Mason Executive Search, a leading full-service employment agency matching qualified talent with some of the area's top companies, is looking for an experienced RN Case Investigator working with the Tennessee Department of Health located in Cookeville, TN. This is a 1st shift position working 8:00 am- 4:30 pm Monday through Friday for a total of 37.5 hours per week. The pay rate for this position is $32.00 per hour.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Case Investigation

1. Interviewing and Data Collection

• Calls new diagnosed cases and collects data on symptoms, exposures, and persons with whom they have in contact with while infectious.
• Communicates with contacts in a professional and empathic manner, assuring them of the confidentiality of the information collected and explaining how the contact information will be utilized.
• Collects and records information into a statewide database and assures the accuracy of data.

1. Health Education

• Provides cases with approved information about state isolation procedures and monitors compliance with isolation.
• Alerts Epidemiologists if the case is associated with a congregate or other high-risk settings that require additional public health investigation or intervention.
• Following established procedures and/or script, the incumbent will provide the ill individual with resources available for further information or support as needed.
• Provide education with outside partners and community stakeholders as needed to decrease the spread of disease.

1. Data Entry and Maintenance

• Utilizes established database(s) to identify newly diagnosed patients.
• Inputs data collected (i.e., symptoms, contacts, etc.) into a database and assures database is kept up to date.
• Provides data from Case Investigation efforts to Epidemiologists and/or Health Educators as necessary.

1. Contact Tracing

• Utilize excellent and sensitive interpersonal, cultural sensitivity, and interviewing skills such that you build and maintain trust with patients and contacts as you work with a patient to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the timeframe while they may have been infectious.
• Notify exposed individuals (contacts) of their potential exposure as rapidly and sensitively as possible.
• Protecting patient privacy, contacts are only informed that they may have been exposed to a patient with the infection; they are not told the identity of the patient who may have exposed them.
• Provide contacts with education, information, and support to understand their risk, what they should do to separate themselves from others who are not exposed, monitor themselves for illness, and the possibility that they could spread the infection to others even if they themselves do not feel ill.
• Encourage contacts to follow CDC guidance as recommended.
• Check in with contacts to make sure they are self-monitoring and have not developed symptoms.
• Maintain data in contact tracing software.

Job Requirements
Minimum Security Clearance:
No Clearance
Education and Experience:

• Current RN License
• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Human Services, Healthcare, Public Health, or related field.

Benefits Include:

• Weekly Pay/Comparable Wages
• Major Medical Insurance
• Indemnity Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Term Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability

Interested? Here is how to apply :

• Visit our website at www.qualitystaffing.com
• Click on "Apply Now" and complete the process.
• Follow up with a phone text to 615-540-8186 , Quality Staffing's TN recruiter.
• Please text your first & last name, your email address, and job #62795 RN Case Investigator, Cookeville . This job closes on 6/11/24 (or when the position is filled) and will no longer accept resumes after this date.

Quality Staffing, Inc. and our subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and consider all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.
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