Community Health Nurse

Title: Community Health Nurse Department: Primary Care Shift: Full-Time 8:30AM - 5:00PM Pay Grade: NBU 07 Location: 4009 N Broadway, Chicago IL 60613- 5501 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60621.

Heartland Alliance Health’s (HAH) mission is to transform healthcare for the most vulnerable – particularly people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or addictions, or struggling with multiple chronic illnesses – improving health for all and the well-being of our community.

The Community Health Nurse provides quality primary health care service to special populations. The individual is a registered professional nurse prepared at the baccalaureate level as a community health nurse generalist, who synthesizes nursing and public health practice to promote and preserve the health of individuals, families and groups to improve the health of the community. Within the nursing process framework, the Community health Nurse performs comprehensive assessment and validation of the reactions and responses of individuals, families or groups to actual and potential problems and provides intervention, evaluation and/or referral to meet identified client needs.

Through collaboration with health professionals and other team members, the Community Health nurse works to implement client care plans and to manage and coordinate continuity of care. The community health nurse participates in activities focused on health promotion, disease prevention, care of acute and chronic illness and restoration of health. The community health nurse is accountable for the outcome of their practice.

Individual accountabilities and work volume will be established through the development of annual Success Objectives, within the framework outlined below.

• Performs a comprehensive and accurate assessment of: individuals – by completing the health history, lifestyle risk assessment, physical assessments and appropriate growth and development assessments and by identifying social and cultural factors that influence health; families - by assessing family specific risk factors, related problems and completing the family risk assessment when appropriate; groups - by utilizing and/or collecting group data such as vital statistics, demographics, socioeconomic, cultural and environmental characteristics and appropriate community members
• Determines relevant diagnoses based on health needs of: individuals - by analyzing appropriate health assessments; families – by analyzing family health assessments and groups – by analyzing group and special population data
• Develops plans at each level of prevention (primary secondary and tertiary) that specify nursing actions for: individuals – by providing direct care to meet physical and psychosocial needs; families – by prioritizing problems and establishing mutually agreed upon goals specific to the stage of family development; groups – by using program planning and group concepts to meet the health needs of the group
• Guided by the plan, intervenes to promote health, prevent illness and restore health for: individuals – by implementing nursing plans independently and prescription treatments and standing orders under the direction of physicians and mid level providers and by facilitating and monitoring client referrals and linkages to other internal and external social services and health care services as appropriate; families – by implementing interventions with the participation of the family members;
  
  groups – by implementing programs based on assessed needs of groups and by developing health education presentations and participating in the training of groups of clients and other community providers
• Evaluates responses to interventions in order to determine progress toward goal achievement and to revise the database, diagnosis and plan for: individuals – by evaluating individual client interventions; families – by evaluating family interventions; groups – by evaluating groups interventions
• Applies theoretical concepts as a basis for decisions in practice from the disciplines of: nursing - including community health theory related to individuals and social, behavioral and the…