SENIOR CLINIC NURSE (P19)
To land Senior Clinic Nurse in New Jersey you go through the competitive route: you sit an announced exam and the score puts you on the eligible list agencies hire from.
To be eligible you bring a bachelor's degree and a professional license. The FY 2027 range lands between $60,876 and $88,743.
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Senior Clinic Nurse is used at 2 independent authorities.
Independent authorities
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| New Jersey Transit Corporation | 2 |
| New Jersey Turnpike Authority | 2 |
State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under the direction of a supervisory official in a State Department or agency, supervises the health and nursing programs of medical offices or first aid station; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Has responsibility for the programming and scheduling of pre-employment, return to work, and special examinations by various medical specialists as needed.
- Authorizes the taking and maintaining of medical and physical histories of new employees to the Department or agency.
- In emergency cases, provides initial first aid measures to employees and the visiting public when accidents and/or illness occur by making the patient comfortable, applying dressings and bandages; calls for medical assistance, including ambulance service.
- Provides first aid treatment to employees when illness occurs on the job and makes recommendations concerning the release from work as required.
- Receives reports of on-the-job injuries and recommends medical treatment as required.
- Coordinates, manages and conducts various health programs for employees, including but not limited to blood pressure screening, vision testing, diabetes management/prevention, and communicable disease prevention.
- Assists in planning for Department-wide mass inoculation or specific programs recommended by management and the State Department of health, as required.
- Under direction, initiates, plans and schedules related functions of the Blood Bank Program.
- Confers with representatives of the Mercer County Blood Bank regarding withdrawal of blood needed for active members of the Blood Bank or eligible members of their immediate families.
- Provides therapeutic treatment to employees and instructs patients in the use of functional and educational appliances such as crutches, wheelchairs, etc.
- Provides training about policies and procedures for the health programs to the nurses in the various medical offices or first aid stations.
- Gives appropriate assignments and instructions to nurses to ensure that planned programs are adequately carried out.
- Makes period inspections of the medial offices or first aid stations to ensure that the stations are maintained in the proper order.
- Ensure that essential records are maintained on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis by the nurses assigned to the various medical offices or first aid stations.
- Requisitions needed equipment and medical supplies for all medical offices or first aid stations and distributes as required.
- Analyzes problems which develop in daily supervision of health and nursing programs and develops appropriate work methods as required.
- Provides training to nurses on current first aid techniques.
- Prepares and supervises the preparation of periodic statistical reports.
- Supervises the maintenance of records of employees and/or the public who pass through the medical offices or first aid stations.
- May be required to learn to utilizes various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office or related units.
Education
Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Experience
Three (3) years' experience as a nurse in an occupational health setting.
License
Registration as a professional nurse in the State of New Jersey.
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of supervisory theory, policies and practices.
- Knowledge of the principles, standards, methods and techniques of professional nursing.
- Knowledge of modern sterilization, immunization, diagnostic and other medical and laboratory reports and test results.
- Knowledge of the problems likely to be encountered in work at a first aid station or medical office and the administration of therapeutic treatment.
- Knowledge of safe working procedures.
- Ability to comprehend and interpret the principles, procedures, and practices of modern nursing and their application to specific dispensary cases in accordance with established procedures.
- Ability to organize assigned supervisory work, analyze problems arising therefrom, and develop appropriate work methods.
- Ability to coordinate, manage, and conduct various health programs for employees.
- Ability to give nursing care, provides first aid treatments, and performs other professional nursing duties.
- Ability to properly record medications ordered and give, medical treatments ordered and given, and to take temperature, respiration and pulse records.
- Ability to work cooperatively with the physicians, nurses, patients and Department employees and the public.
- Ability to prepare correspondence in the course of official duties.
- Ability to maintain the essential records and files.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording information systems used by the agency, office or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.