Job Description

* Open to candidates that are permanent or those that have filed for the Open Competitive Education and Experience/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE (SCHOOL HEALTH) Exam No. 4082 within the filing period From: August 2, 2023 To: August 22, 2023.

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:

1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods

3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness

4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health

5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Family and Child Health Administration (FCH) is a division comprising of the Office of School Health (OSH), the Bureau of Maternal Infant & Reproductive Health (BMIRH), the Bureau of Early intervention (BEI) and FCH Administration. OSH promotes the health of the 1.3 million school children enrolled in approximately 1,800 public and non-public schools in New York City. Services to students include management of chronic health problems, preventive health screenings, urgent care, medication administration, preventive counseling and health education.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Perform as a member of a nursing team in Central Office.

Assisting in providing health education to staff in schools and advising families on proper health practices.

Answer and return all calls to the Diabetes Medication Administration Form (DMAF) Hotline

Provide the school nurse with current approved DMAF orders in a timely manner.

Accord to OSH policy, collaborate to coordinate care between the OSH providers, endocrinologists, parents, Diabetes Nurse Educators (DNEs), and school nurses for the student with diabetes DMAF approval.

Update nursing's DMAF Hotline log daily.

Provide approved DMAF to OSH and Agency nurses who may not have access to the Automated Student Health Record (ASHR).

Contact endocrinologists for clarification of DMAF orders.

Reach out to nurses and parents/guardians for signed consent or missing information from DMAF to expedite DMAF approval.

Liaise with the OSH medical unit for status and updates on DMAF approvals.

Ensure DMAF orders for NYC school children are approved expeditiously and are in ASHR.

Assist with central nursing activities and special projects and related task as needed.

Qualifications

1. A Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nursing from a regionally-accredited college or university or one recognized by the New York State Education Department as following acceptable educational practices; and

2. A license and current registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State. This license must be maintained for the duration of employment.

SPECIAL NOTE A

For appointment to School Health, individuals must be able to perform Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).

SPECIAL NOTE B

For assignment to Assignment Levels II and III, in addition to meeting the Qualification Requirements described above, individuals must meet the supervisory level qualification

requirements set forth in Section 11.42 of the New York State Sanitary Code.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.