Occupational Health RN Full-Time Days

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
  • INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
  • COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional ethical physical and spiritual needs.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
  • RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth dignity and value.
  • EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.

• Practices the Caring and Serving Model

• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards

• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET Managing Up Key Words)

• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees experiential journeys to ensure strong communication ease of access to information and a seamless experience

• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job

• Actively supports the organizations vision fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

• Uses therapeutic communication which includes active listening and teaching to establish a relationship with patients guests and interprofessional team.

• Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall department workload consistently offering assistance and responding positively to requests for assistance. Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in the work environment. Seeks guidance from and offers guidance to interprofessional team when appropriate and applies feedback to improve outcomes.

• Functions directly and indirectly as a clinical resource/consultant by working with staff management patients/families and/or other groups as applicable.

• Performs preemployment health assessments on all new postoffer candidates allied health professionals (not managed by medical staff credentialing) and other contract agency volunteers and students per policy.

• Coordinates and performs activities related to ongoing employee health management to include the annual Tuberculosis (TB) and Influenza program for employees allied health staff volunteers and contract personnel. Administers tracks coordinates and reports immunization programs.

• Provides nursing care to include administration of injections dispensing nonprescription medications vital signs wound care and work status reports. Provides first aid treatment as needed and appropriate. Refers employees to physicians as appropriate.

• Conducts initial management review and monitoring of all occupational injuries and illnesses.

• Utilizes results from data collection activities to include occupational injury and illness volumes and trends results from infection control surveillance trends of employee illnesses to identify and prioritize areas of focus for improvement. Participates in and reports to safety committees as needed.

• Assists in development and revision of policies and procedures to meet current practice standards. May present at Medical Staff Environment of Care (EOC) and Safety Committees.

• Collaborates with Infection Control physicians and others in the investigation reporting and followthrough of employees potentially exposed to infectious or communicable diseases.

• Displays selfmotivation to independently manage time effectively timely document care minimize incidental overtime and prioritize daily tasks. Provides input into the unit resource utilization including unit capital and operational budget needs.

• Adheres to fiscal responsibility when ordering and maintaining medical and office supply inventory.

• Coordinates collaborates and participates in training along with other key stakeholders such as education and department leadership regarding safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) principles.

• Coordinates planning of and may present educational programs to enhance staff knowledge.

• Designs gathers reviews and utilizes qualitative and quantitative data analyses to develop educational material to promote patient safety and risk reduction.

• Bachelors degree or higher from an accredited school of Nursing OR Associates degree from an accredited school of Nursing with an additional two years of nursing experience (in addition to the minimum experience requirements listed below)

• Three years of clinical nursing experience

• Occupational health nursing experience preferred

• RN Registered Nurse Texas State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure within 60 days OR
• RNTemp Registered Nurse Temporary State Licensure within 60 days AND
• BLS Basic Life Support (AHA)

• COHN Certified Occupational Health Nurse (ABOHN) OR
• COHN/S Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist (ABOHN)

• Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job determined through ongoing skills competency assessments and performance evaluations

• Sufficient proficiency in speaking reading and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security

• Ability to effectively communicate with patients physicians family members and coworkers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles

• Strong assessment organizational and problem solving skills as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components

• Ability to function independently and exercise judgment in interactions with physicians interprofessional care team and patients and their families

• Uses critical thinking skills and clinical judgment to work autonomously as defined by the Nurse Practice Act

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ATTIRE

• Uniform No
• Scrubs Yes
• Business professional No
• Other (department approved) Yes

ONCALL*
*Note that employees may be required to be oncall during emergencies (ie. DIsaster Severe Weather Events etc) regardless of selection below.

• On Call* No

TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**

• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No

Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital opened in December 2000 to serve the comprehensive health care needs of the growing community in Northwest Houston. The 310 bed hospital has 23 operating rooms and more than 2100 employees. Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital has been named a Magnet recognized health care facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Centers (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program. Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is Northwest Houstons regional leader in robotic minimallyinvasive surgeries and specializes in cardiology and cardiovascular services neurology neurosurgery orthopedics and sports medicine and comprehensive cancer services. Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital has a Breast Care Center Cancer Center Imaging Center Infusion Center Sleep Center Surgical Weight Loss Center and operates the largest Childbirth Center in the greater Northwest Houston area.