Head Nurse - Occupational Health jobs in Minnesota

This position will be located at Midway, in St. Paul.

The primary responsibility of the Employee Occupational Health Nurse Advisor on-call is to independently triage telephone calls from health care workers of Mhealth Fairview regarding Blood and Body fluid exposures and communicapable disease exposures. Utilizes excellent customer service skills and clinical expertise, protocols, and resources to direct or provide appropriate intervention. The schedule may require rotating off premise on call weekdays/weekends.

This position is casual, and will pick up shifts on the evening and/or night shift, as needed by the department.

This position will not be eligible for benefits. If you are seeking a benefit-eligible position, please check out some of our other openings!

Department Hours of Operation:

Monday - Thursday: 10:00pm - 6:00am 
Friday: 10:00pm – 8:00am
Saturday: 4:00pm – 8:00am 
Sunday: 4:00pm – 6:00am 

Job Expectations:

Independently Triage Phone Calls

• Demonstrates knowledge and expertise in triaging callers properly such that all callers receive a timely and appropriate response.
• Completes timely documentation and identified outcomes

Assess employee, manager and organization needs:

• Involves employee, manager and representatives of other disciplines as appropriate in gathering data
• Determines if health/wellness goals impact or are impacted by laws, regulations, standards of practice, community best practices
• Responds appropriately to emergent situations

Develops an individualized plan of care to achieve desired outcomes:

• Develops a care plan consistent with medical standards based on organization and customer needs
• Determines intervention and or recommendations based on relevant needs
• Identifies and utilizes appropriate internal and external resources

Implements nursing interventions

• Assists employee and manager with work related issues
• Coordinates appropriate care, treatment and follow up of work-related health considerations based on knowledge of specific regulations, industry practices, work tasks and work environments
• Documents interventions

Evaluates plan of care

• Systematically and continuously evaluates employee response to interventions
• Modifies intervention based on employee response
• Involves manager, representatives of other disciplines and external resources as appropriate

Required Education:

• Associates degree – two year college nursing degree

Required Experience:

• 2 years’ experience in occupational health nursing or in area of nursing requiring independent nursing skills, i.e. college health/school nursing, ER nursing, etc.

Required License/Certification/Registration

• Current MN RN licensure

Preferred Education:

• BSN or BAN degree – 4 year college nursing degree

Preferred Experience:

• More than two years in occupational health nursing

Preferred License/Certification/Registration:

• COHN-S or COHN