Employee Health RN

Job Summary:

The Employee Health Nurse performs clinical duties which includes health surveillance for employees, volunteers, contract, and medical staff such as administering Quantiferon testing, performing fit testing, administering Hepatitis B, MMR, VZ, Tdap and flu shots and new employee onboarding.

• Maintains database of employee's health records and inputs health information in the Employee Health assigned software.
• Performs workers' comp triage and provides first aid to injured employee.
• Assists in entering workers' comp claims and tracking employee injuries.
• Assists in the training of direct patient-care employees in the use of the safe patient handling equipment.
• Assists in projects of orientation, safety, staff development, health education and equipment training.
• The Employee Health Nurse reports to the manager of Employee Health.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of nursing procedures, ability to give vaccines, Quantiferon, and knowledge of medical terminology.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of patients or employees.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a nurse, preferably in a hospital.
• Technical/Vocational - Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• RN = Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Nevada.
• CT CPRBLS = AHA-Basic Life Support-Nat'l

Preferred Qualifications:

• College degree preferred.

As the only not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system in the area, Dignity Health Nevada, guided by the Adrian Dominican Sisters' vision for over 70 years, continues to serve the Henderson and Las Vegas communities. The Siena Campus, a 326-bed acute care hospital opened in 2000, expanded the services of the Rose de Lima Campus to meet growing healthcare needs. St. Rose Dominican is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems, with over 9,000 physicians, 60,000 team members, and 400 care centers across 22 states, including hospitals, urgent care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to compassionate, high-quality care, especially for the underserved.