Occupational Health Nurse

Job Summary:

This position serves as the Occupational Health Nurse and represents the university in this capacity by focusing on promotion and restoration of health, prevention of illness and injury, and protection from occupational hazards. This position serves multiple University of Colorado communities, including CU Medicine health care professionals, researchers, animal care providers, and service personnel. The Occupational Health Nurse provides an integrated approach to delivery of comprehensive, quality occupational health services conducting consultative and clinical services for a wide variety of health care, research, educational, and support organizations. The position provides preventive occupational health and medical surveillance services to CU Medicine health care providers and staff as well the CU Anschutz researchers and support staff. Responsibilities include new employee onboarding, health hazard assessment, immunization review and administration, respiratory medical evaluation for respirator use, CU Medicine site visits with oversight and evaluation of point of care testing, supervision of ancillary staff, injury/illness consultation, promotion of intervention strategies, and assuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards. The Occupational Health Nurse advocates for employees fostering equitable and quality health care services and safe and healthy environments in which to work.

The position works closely with and fosters strong working relationships with the CU Medicine health care providers and staff, including doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and nursing assistants as well as the CU Anschutz research community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implements components of the health assessment for new employee onboarding, ensuring effectiveness within the regulatory guidelines of governmental organizations and accrediting bodies.
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and specialists to identify adverse health exposures in the work environment; design and implement appropriate intervention strategies to improve worker health and safety.
• Collaborates with the Industrial Hygienist to identify associates needing respiratory fit testing.
• Performs clinical interventions such as immunization administration, venipuncture, push-pull test, Ishihara test for color deficiency, drug test administration, and clinical consultation.
• Responsible for clinical documentation on record keeping and communicative platforms.
• Provides patient communication, documentation of results, and overall surveillance for the hearing conservation program.
• Ensures Occupational Health mandated requirements are upheld and are integrated into policies, programs, and training.
• Stays up to date with new and improved standards for occupational health care.
• Monitors execution of ancillary staff functions.
• Provides support to the overall operations of the Occupational Health program, perform health screening and assessment of researchers working with infectious diseases acquired from live animals, animal tissues, excreta and allergens and other health risks associated with laboratory animal care and research activities in collaboration with and advice from medical director. Make referrals and work with University Risk Management for follow up and treatment

Work Location:

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of 4 days per week on campus and as needed for in-person meetings.