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

• 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 Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nursing program.
• Licensure/ Certification: Current state nursing license for the state of Arkansas or 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.