NURSE PRACTITIONER WOMANS HEALTH

Nurse Practitioner - Woman's Health

Location : Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Department : Clinical Services

Posted : 10 / 30 / 2025

Location Name : 6728 S. Hudson

Wage : Depends on Experience Annual

Position Type : Full-Time / Exempt

Shift : Monday to Friday; 8 : 00 AM to 4 : 30 PM

SUMMARY :

This evolving position is in the Operations Division with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD). The employee provides advanced registered nursing care within their certified specialty area including the assessment, medical diagnosis, and treatment of patients. A supervising physician is required for the purposes of prescribing as part of patient management. These various job duties and responsibilities may be performed for the main and satellite clinics.

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

This is a summary of the duties and responsibilities commonly found within this classification. All employees must maintain a commitment to the OCCHD's mission, vision, and strategic goals. This summary is not meant to be all-inclusive, thus, other related activities or tasks may be assigned.

This position functions at the program management level (Tier 2) as defined by the Council on Linkages Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. An emphasis on the following domains is important in this role :

• Data Analytics and Assessment Skills
• Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
• Communication Skills
• Community Partnership Skills
• Public Health Sciences Skills

This position also functions at an advanced public health nursing level (competency level Tier 2) and encompasses the 18 national standards of public health nursing practice and professional performance, as defined by the American Nurses Association Public Health Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice (2022). These standards, organized by the nursing process, include :

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

1. Perform physical examination, health history, review laboratory tests and conduct other appropriate procedures to assess the health status and administer care with the scope of the program.

2. Diagnosing and treating minor acute illnesses and chronic diseases within the defined scope of practice and the defined OCCHD standards of care.

3. Review and analyze laboratory tests, determine diagnoses, prescribe pharmaceuticals within the scope of the program.

4. Developing and updating specialty-specific protocols for health promotion, disease prevention, medical intervention, and treatment.

5. Providing professional expertise to registered nurses, and other ancillary staff regarding specific clinical concerns identified in health department clinics within designated scope of practice.

6. Provide continuity of care for patients by referring to or collaborating with physicians, other health care providers, and social service agencies.

7. Counsel patient, family members and others involved in the care of the patient on health promotion, disease prevention, health problems, procedures, prescribed treatments, use of medications, plan of care and other matters.

8. Documenting client clinical service records.

9. Performing venipuncture.

10. Administer immunizations.

11. Driving to off-site locations to perform job duties.

12. Precepting nurse practitioner students within the advanced practice specialty area.

13. Provides communicable disease testing to woman's health clients.

14. Only prescribes within specified programmatic parameters per OCCHD direction.

15. Understands population health care as opposed to primary care services.

16. Identifies health care needs and makes recommendations for comprehensive health care and education to the community.

17. Able to see a high volume of clients per day.

18. Under the direction of the supervisor or management, will function as a registered nurse as needed, including but not limited to communicable disease and immunization services when short staffed or as needed to aid clinic flow.

19. Is adaptable to clinic flow, staff changes, and needs of the clinic.

20. May serve as a preceptor for an intern

21. Maintains appropriate confidentiality and follows OCCHD guidelines and statutory regulations regarding the release of client or OCCHD information.

22. Completes all required training in support of duties and responsibilities of this position.

23. In addition, at the direction of OCCHD Chief Executive Officer and Chief Health Officer or designee, the employee will be assigned a variety of specific job duties and responsibilities as a member of the OCCHD Emergency Preparedness and Response Program Team (i.e., Bioterrorism Response Program). As a member of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Program Team, the employee is required to complete all necessary emergency responder training and may be designated as a member of the first-responder team.

24. In accordance with our designation of a PHAB accredited health department and explicit commitment to f continuous quality improvement, employees will receive quality improvement (QI) training deemed necessary by their supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS :

SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

WORKING CONDITIONS :

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS :

This position requires frequent contact with various OCCHD personnel to give and receive information, as well as with clients / caregivers to provide services. The employee also may have contact with state and community agency employees, hospital, and clinic personnel, and with physicians. Tact and diplomacy are required in the performance of duties. The employee may be required to deal with temperamental people on occasion.

SUPERVISION GIVEN AND RECEIVED / ACCOUNTABILITY :

The employee performs job duties under the supervision of an immediate supervisor. The work product is subject to both specific and general review. The employee has no direct supervisory duties or responsibilities. Although this position has no direct accountability for any money or materials, the employee may make recommendations which result in the expenditure of significant funds.

CONDITIONAL :

Employees who fall into the following categories are in conditional employment positions : a) Chief Executive Officer and Public Health Officer; b) Senior Executive Team, Executive Team and Leadership Team employees who serve at the pleasure of the OCCHD Chief Executive Officer and Chief Health Officer; c) certain other OCCHD employees whose salaries, benefits, and / or overhead are based on available funds such as, but not limited to, revenue generating contracts, grants, or fee-for-service revenue. In other words, this means that if the funding or the program is terminated, cancelled, or non-renewed, your employment terminates automatically. This position may be partially or fully funded by a grant.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

BENEFITS :

As an employee of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, you will enjoy comprehensive benefits which consists of :

15 days per year of annual leave

15 days per year of sick leave

15 paid holidays annually

A comprehensive health insurance package – medical, dental, vision, life insurance, dependent life insurance, and flexible medical spending account

A generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

Retirement plans : Defined Contribution Plan and 457 Deferred Compensation Plan

PROCEDURES FOR APPLYING :

Interested candidates should apply online at www.occhd.org. Select Careers at the top of the web page, select Current Jobs, select the position you are applying for, and select "apply". You will be directed to our Career Center. Get started by uploading your resume with your profile. Otherwise, click "skip" to continue. The first step is to register with the Career Center, again you will click on apply for an active position. You may search for open positions by name or select "show all positions." You may select "view" to read the details regarding the position. Again, you will click on "apply now". You will be directed to the second step of the application process. Please complete the entire application. Do not substitute a resume for your employment history. You may attach a cover letter, resume, and an official transcript, if applicable. You will save and complete your application. You will be directed to the final step of answering job specific questions, if applicable. Once you have finished the process, you should receive a message stating, "Successfully applied". You will also receive an email stating your application has been received for the position you selected. If you do not receive this message, then there has been a step not completed. You will need to review your record. The position will be open for 30 days or until filled. Please be advised that applications will periodically be considered, as such this position could be filled any time before the closing date.

Successful candidate subject to background check, reference verification and drug screening.

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