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

Job description

- 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, rese...