Transfer- Public Health Nurse Level III

Class Code 28259: Public Health Nurse Level I/II

Transfer job postings are for County of Sacramento employees only.
In order to be qualified for a transfer:
1. You must meet the Minimum Qualifications of the new job.
2. The difference between the top salary steps (the highest pay rate within the range of pay) of your current job class and the job class that you intend to transfer into must be less than 5%.

There are three different transfer types that you may qualify for: interdepartmental transfer interclass transfer and voluntary demotion. These different transfer types are defined as:

• Interdepartmental transfer - a transfer in the same class from one County department to another.
• Interclass transfer - a transfer from one job class to a different job addition the difference between the top salary steps (the highest pay rate within the range of pay) of your current job class and the job class that you intend to transfer into must be less than 5%.
• Voluntary demotion - a transfer into a job class that pays less than 95% of your current class salary.

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

• 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 II) Six months of experience as a licensed/certified Public Health Nurse performing public health nursing duties.

(Level I) The registration and licensure requirements below.

Note: 1. Experience requirements are stated as full-time work; to convert part-time to full-time equivalency: 173.6 21.7 days 1 work month.
2. Required experience may be paid or unpaid

Note: If the minimum qualifications include an educational or certificate/license requirement applicants must submit proof of requirements with the application. Failure to submit proof of requirements may result in disqualification from the examination. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable. For guidelines on submitting acceptable proof of educational requirements please click here or speak to someone in our office before the cut-off date listed in this notice.

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.
Note: Failure to maintain such license and certification may be cause for disciplinary action in accordance with Civil Service Commission Rules.
All persons appointed to these classes must possess and maintain a current California drivers 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.

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 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.

How to Apply

The County of Sacramento application form and responses to the Supplemental Questions are to be completed and submitted online.

Please remember:

• If you have previously applied online for a County job you must use the same Username account.
• Do not share your Username account with anyone else.
• If any additional documentation (such as copies of transcripts etc.) is required you will be contacted.
• Resumes may be attached to your submitted application however a notation of See Resume will not be accepted for the information requested on the application or the Supplemental Questions.
• Your application will be considered incomplete if the required information is not filled out in its entirety.
• Any notifications from the Employment Office about your Transfer application will be sent to you by email. Notices can also be accessed in your inbox.