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This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Office of Public Health / Region 1-BRCO / Orleans Parish
Announcement Number: OPH/EL/192044
Cost Center: 3262108001
Position Number(s): 50330808
This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and will be filled as a Probationary appointment.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
Job Description:
20% Assists in special investigations and mass immunization programs. Attends all mandatory trainings required for team participants, including WMD/Bioterrorism Trainings. Assists with developing, planning, coordinating and implementing regional Emergency Response Plan. Assists and plans with parish emergency response partners for public health/bioterrorism threats in their parishes; and provides medical/nursing guidance as needed.
20% Assists with constructing and implementing regional All-Hazards, i.e. Strategic National Stockpile Distribution Plan, Regional Pandemic Plan. Assists and composes After Action Report (AAR) and Improvement Plans following emergency response activities. Maintains disaster assignments for all OPH staff and utilizes web-based communication system as needed.
15% Responsible for credentialing, updating and maintaining regional Emergency Systems for Advanced Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) or LAVA, which is federally mandated. Responsible for updating and maintaining employees' training in Workforce Development. Informing and educating staff of trainings in regards to emergency preparedness, infectious diseases, and other public health topics. Conducts and assists with community outreaches; promoting emergency preparedness and recruiting LAVA volunteers.
15% Responsible for educating and training all clinical staff on emergency preparedness issues, as well as, educating non-medical employees and community on potential public health issues and emergency preparedness. Maintains records of employees' participation in in-services via web-based system. Serves as a liaison between health units and health care providers; keeping community partners informed of any public health threats.
10% Serves on regional Rapid Response Team and Incident response team. Performance of duties may require responding to emergencies and public Health threats i.e. natural disaster, food-borne/infectious illnesses, environmental exposures and outbreaks as they emerge. Assists with surveillance of infectious diseases and bioterrorism. Coordinates with the regional Epidemiologist and Infection Control personnel in local hospitals as needed.
10% Participates in emergency response activities, special investigations, mass immunization clinics and drills. Functions as Operation Chief in Command Structure during activation of the regional EOC. Serves as an OPH liaison for emergency events as needed to local parish EOC. Provides professional nursing care, leadership, and/or surveillance in response to an emergency situation in the community. Plans and collaborates with other Emergency Response Personnel; staffing and deployment for Medical Special Needs Shelters, Bioterrorism Preparedness, Bus triage, and other public Health responses to Weapons of Mass Destruction.
5% Responsible for personally maintaining CPR certification and Nursing Licensure, as well as, performing any additional duties not listed in job description to ensure the functioning of agency operations at all levels.
5% Supervises, educates, end provides professional nursing care in response to emergencies and public health/bioterrorist threats on a 24-hour basis situation in the community and statewide.
Preferred Experience:
Public Health and Emergency Preparedness
Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*
A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Ella Lewis
Ella.Lewis2@la.gov
LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES
BATON ROUGE, LA 70821
225 342-6477
This organization participates in E-verify, and for more information on E-verify, please contact DHS at 1-888-464-4218.
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EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.
Provides direct care to specific patients, i.e. neo-natal intensive care, medical surgery (O.R.), psychiatric, or oncology.
Prepares individual nursing care plans.
Writes standards of care for patients with specialized illnesses or conditions.
May provide nursing care to the most severe and/or terminal patients.
Confers with head nurse to provide support services that facilitate the delivery of patient care.
Monitors the implementation and quality of patient care.
Assists nursing staff to increase clinical competence.
Initiates evaluation and revision of standards of care.
Evaluates patient care practices according to established nursing care standards and performs quality assurance controls to ensure that standards of care are being met.
Plans and maintains an effective unit orientation program.
Plans, develops, and implements the nursing education program of a facility.
Develops and conducts orientation programs for new employees.
Coordinates and develops patient education programs and trains nurse instructors.
Determines needs for in-service training and continuing education courses for professional and non-professional employees.
Conducts research for the development of training courses.
Serves as consultant to nursing staff on specific educational needs or problems.
Develops and conducts in-service training and patient education programs, including the production of educational media.
Presents specific certification programs, e.g., cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medication administration, etc.
Assists in developing and updating nursing policies and procedures manuals.
Maintains records of employees' participation in in-service and continuing education programs.
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Serves as assistant supervisor or as regional staff nurse in establishing short and long-term goals and work planning for any OPH program.
Assist in the supervision of activities in clinics to ensure that patients receive needed services, program requirements are maintained, and appropriate follow-up appointments or treatment are provided. Monitors compliance of medical records.
Assists in the preparation of budget and management reports, in staff scheduling, and continuous quality improvement activities.
Provides professional nursing care to individuals, families, and communities in public health program clinics, communities, shelters and/or any additional site needed for public health services.
Collaborates with environmental health personnel and regional epidemiologist in the collection of data, case management, follow-up, community education, and referral of those at risk for exposure to environmental and disease entities.
Participates and collaborates with Disease Intervention Specialists in the contact investigation, treatment and education of individuals infected with communicable diseases.
Conducts infectious disease and bioterrorism surveillance activities and follow-up on household and community contacts of cases. Facilitates the reportable disease and syndromic surveillance in emergency rooms. Assists in the development, implementation, and maintenance of a surveillance system that tracks hospital and ICU admissions and hospital beds occupied.
Provides care coordination services for vulnerable populations.
Provides in-service training and orientation to new personnel as needed; assists the supervisor in providing in-service instruction for public health program requirements, policies and protocols; assists with caseload management.
Instructs patients on prevention and health maintenance on specific health conditions. Coordinates patient access to care, as well as referral to community resources.
Advises official bodies and civic, private or public agencies regarding community health issues, outbreaks, and national health objectives.
Supervises, educates, and provides professional nursing care in response to emergency situations in the community and statewide on a 24-hour basis. Ensures emergency care equipment is available. Participates in Emergency Preparedness, in the staffing of Special Needs Shelters, Bioterrorism Preparedness, and other public health responses to Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Responds to emergencies and public health/bioterrorist threats on a 24-hour basis.
