Public Health Nurse - PHN7 - Casual Employee (Communicable Disease Control Division)

• Carries out communicable disease surveillance, prevention, and control measures for the City of Boston.
• Investigates reports of communicable diseases including pathogens of public health importance, reported outbreaks, or other situations of public health concern, including emerging pathogen events.
• Conducts field investigations (including home and site visits) and implements preventive and control measures as needed.
• Provides nursing services at the BMC TB Clinic, including patient assessment, patient/family/significant other education, medication monitoring, and tuberculin skin testing.
• Assists with surveillance and control activities for mass casualty events
• Collects epidemiologic data as needed for analysis of communicable diseases within Boston.
• Provides nursing support for CDC Division including vaccine clinics and other projects or activities as needed.
• Acts as a resource re education and outreach to community-based agencies, health care facilities and providers, individuals, and other internal and external stakeholders in matters related to infectious diseases
• Participates in staff conferences and meetings, other departmental and community committees, research activities, quality improvement activities and program planning as requested.
• Collaborates with others throughout the Division to ensure public health preparedness
• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice as Registered Nurse in Massachusetts.
• BSN or a Bachelor's Degree in a related field required with minimum of two years of clinical or public health experience, except that 8 years clinical or public health experience (health education, outreach) may be substituted for a BSN or Bachelor's Degree
• Masters in Public Health degree may be substituted for one year of experience.
• Prior experience working with infectious diseases preferred.
• Demonstrated competency in working with diverse ethnic, cultural & socio-economic groups.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to carry out responsibilities in the home, community & group settings.
• Computer skills including Microsoft Word or comparable software required.
• Bilingual preferred (Spanish or Asian language).
• Current Massachusetts drivers license and own vehicle.