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Senior Public Health Nurse
Sacramento CountySacramento, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jul 2026
š° $149,820/yr($123,240/yr ā $149,820/yr)
About the role
Posting number: 28257-E
Department: County Wide
Job classification: Senior Public Health Nurse
Posting type: Open
Categories: Health Services, Public Health, Nursing
Summary
3/26/26, 4/30/26, 5/28/26, 6/25/26,
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Ā This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5:00 pm on:Ā
3/26/26, 4/30/26, 5/28/26, 6/25/26,Ā 7/30/26, 8/27/26, 9/24/26, 10/29/26, 11/25/26, 12/31/26
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Senior Public Health Nurses oversee and provide a variety of public health nursing services in a home, group or clinic setting, or in a specific program office, in such areas as prevention and treatment of communicable disease; child health care, growth and development; high-risk infants; home care guidance of the ill, injured and aged; prevention and treatment of disabling illnesses; family planning; parenting; pre- and postnatal care; immunization and inoculation; and, public and community health care resources.
Incumbents work under general supervision of a Supervising Public Health Nurse or other professional nurse, or a higher-level program manager with medical direction as needed from a physician. The focus of duties is on serving as a program specialist and advisor, providing assistance to other staff, and performing the more difficult and complex public health nursing duties; incumbents may supervise or provide work direction to a small staff. Typical assignments of this class include the immunization assistance program, maternal/child health programs, disease control, and elderly assistance.
Incumbents work under general supervision of a Supervising Public Health Nurse or other professional nurse, or a higher-level program manager with medical direction as needed from a physician. The focus of duties is on serving as a program specialist and advisor, providing assistance to other staff, and performing the more difficult and complex public health nursing duties; incumbents may supervise or provide work direction to a small staff. Typical assignments of this class include the immunization assistance program, maternal/child health programs, disease control, and elderly assistance.
Examples of duties
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
- Techniques of organizing and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects
- 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 biologicals
- 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
- Procedures for conducting epidemological investigations
- Standard medical record keeping
- Effectively 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
- Effectively 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 most effective use of time
- Operate slide and movie projectors, and use other teaching aids
- Maintain patient confidentiality
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