THE POSITION
This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on:
5/19/25, 6/16/25, 7/14/25, 8/18/25, 9/15/25, 10/14,25, 11/17/25, 12/15/25
KNOWLEDGE OF
- Professional public health nursing principles, procedures and techniques
- State of California laws and regulations on nursing practices
- Normal course of illnesses and disabilities, and their treatment
- Family planning methods
- Pre-natal, pregnancy and post-natal nutrition and medical care
- Infant and child care, growth, and development, including common illnesses
- Case management techniques and the care and treatment of high risk, physically impaired and developmentally disabled infants and children
- Substance abuse symptoms and intervention techniques
- Mental illness symptoms and intervention techniques
- Symptoms, prevention, reporting requirements and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect
- Normal and abnormal family dynamics
- Basic techniques of organizing and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects
- Basic individual and group counseling techniques applicable to public health nursing
- Common public and community health care resources
- Social and economic factors influencing individual and community health;
- Differing cultural, religious and social attitudes about hygiene, family planning, child care, and health treatment
- Proper handling and administering of biological
- Proper handling of contaminated items
- Causes, control, detection, prevention and treatment of common communicable diseases, environmentally based illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases, and food and water-borne illnesses;
- Basic procedures for conducting epidemiological investigations
- Standard medical record-keeping
Ability to
- Affectively communicate with and gain the cooperation of clients, and potential clients, of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds
- Work cooperatively with other health and social service providers
- Effectively conduct interviews of patients and families to gain information to evaluate their medical situation
- Determine and apply effective means of intervening in cases of mental illness, and substance abuse
- Conduct and participate in in-service education and training
- Effectively demonstrate and teach care of infants, children, the disabled and chronically ill to individuals in their homes
- Effectively teach public group classes
- Gain cooperation of patients and other individuals in investigating and treating communicable diseases and environmentally based illnesses
- Tolerate unsanitary homes
- Learn and comply with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures, including security requirements, applicable to the work unit
- Recognize, and avoid or defuse, potentially dangerous situations and hostile people
- Accurately evaluate cases to determine caseload priorities
- Plan routes and schedule in-home visits to make the most effective use of time
- Learn to operate slide and movie projectors, and use other teaching aids
- Maintain patient confidentiality
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
(Level I) The registration and licensure requirements below.
(Level II) Six months of experience as a licensed/certified Public Health Nurse performing public health nursing duties.
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
License / Certificate / Registration Requirements:
- All persons appointed to these classes must possess and maintain a current Registered Nurse license and public health nurse specialty certificate issued by the state of California.
- All persons appointed to these classes must possess and maintain a current California driver’s license, class III or higher; failure to maintain such license may be cause for disciplinary action in accordance with Civil Service Commission Rules.
- Persons appointed to these classes will be required to have, or obtain, and maintain a valid CPR certificate.
Note: Failure to maintain such license and certification may be cause for disciplinary action in accordance with Civil Service Commission Rules.
Other Requirements: Some positions in the classes of Public Health Nurse and Senior Public Health Nurse may require the ability to communicate fluently in a language other than English, in addition to English.
When required, the special skills may be used in the performance of typical tasks shown in the “Example of Duties” in this class specification. In addition, incumbents translate and interpret using standard English and a language other than standard English; and/or act as a consultant to others regarding the needs and problems presented by individuals of different languages and cultural backgrounds.
The Civil Service Commission approved the use of selective certification for special skills for the classes of Public Health Nurse and Senior Public Health Nurse on May 12, 1989.
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