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.
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
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