Heartland Alliance Health·Chicago, Illinois
The Community Health Nurse provides primary healthcare services to vulnerable populations, focusing on health promotion and disease prevention. Responsibilities include performing comprehensive assessments, developing care plans, and coordinating continuity of care through multidisciplinary collaboration.
Title: Community Health Nurse
Department: Primary Care
Full-Time 8:30AM - 5:00PM
Pay Grade: NBU 07
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.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Frequently required to sit, stand and walk.
Heartland Alliance Health makes all hiring and employment decisions, and operates all programs, services, and functions without regard to race, receipt of an order of protection, creed, color, age, gender, gender identity, marital or parental status, religion, ancestry, national origin, amnesty, physical or mental disability, protected veterans status, genetic information, sexual orientation, immigrant status, political affiliation or belief, use of FMLA, VESSA, military, and family military rights, ex-offender status (depending on the offense and position to be filled), unfavorable military discharge, membership in an organization whose primary purpose is the protection of civil rights or improvement of living conditions and human relations, height, weight, or HIV infection, in accord with the organization's AIDS Policy Statement of September 1987
Requires an active Illinois Registered Nurse license and two to three years of community health experience. A Practical Nursing Diploma or Certificate is required, while an Associate's degree is preferred.
Market context
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