Public Health Nurse

2 weeks ago


San Francisco California, United States City and County of San Francisco Full time
Job Description

The 2830 Public Health Nurse in Communicable Disease Control and Prevention is a highly skilled professional nurse who possesses a variety of skills and knowledge directed at the identification, characterization, control, and prevention of communicable diseases of public health importance, to include in-person field nursing such as vaccination, testing, outbreak investigation and response, training, and infection control and prevention assessments. May work part time in a mobile or field operation or in the Adult Immunization and Travel Clinic as required.

Under general supervision of the Nurse Manager, the 2830 Public Health Nurse performs the following duties:

Investigates and respond to communicable diseases and outbreaks of public health importance.

Assists with informing local medical providers, affected populations, community organizations, and the general public of relevant disease trends, alerts, and outbreaks in a timely manner through informational bulletins, routine reports, trainings, exposure notices, advisories, public meetings, and other means.

Investigates and documents communicable disease cases and outbreaks promptly. This includes phone interviews, reviewing medical records, working with partners, and doing field visits. Tasks involve confirming diagnoses, identifying exposed contacts, assessing risks, ensuring treatment, collecting specimens, enforcing infection control, offering education, filling out forms, and reporting to agencies.

Maintains close collaboration with other jurisdictions, agencies, city departments and healthcare facilities. Answers questions, provide technical support and training, and collaborate on complex health issues.

Provides lead direction to other nurses, clinical staff, or paraprofessional staff for broader outbreak investigation and preparedness and implementation of disease control and prevention measures.

Monitors contact with patients having communicable diseases through phone, email, video conference, or field visits.

Participates in preparation and/or service of Health Officer Orders.

Helps new staff, students, interns, and preceptees get familiar with Disease Control and Prevention programs and activities.

Develops and updates standard work, protocols, procedures, and policies.

Stays updated on specialized areas like disease trends, vaccination guidelines, and professional standards.

Plans, organizes, and staffs vaccination events including those based in facilities, schools, the community, and the field/street. Administers vaccines, monitors vaccine recipients, and responds to adverse events.

Maintains expertise in vaccine storage, handling, and administration.

Receives training in, and complies with, infection control procedures and personal protective equipment use.

Receive training in other Disease Prevention and Control Branch activities to improve cross-branch capacity, emergency preparedness, and surge.

Participates in emergency surge activities to respond to emerging communicable disease cases and situations.

The 2830 Public Health Nurse performs other duties as assigned/required.


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