About Us
The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.
Employee Health Nurse
Responsible for the evaluation, follow-up, and ongoing care of employees and non-employees as required, including pre-employment evaluations and related health records and reports.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Assesses work-related injuries and illnesses, treating injury or referring according to protocol and assisting with follow-up as needed.
- Insures that all OSHA required lab tests, immunizations, TB precautions and fit testing are completed on new employees.
- Maintains TB screening program per OSHA mandates.
- Implements OSHA requirements as recommended for employees.
- Assists with assessing employee’s work environment, related conditions, initiating work site evaluations, and insuring changes are made when possible.
- Assists with assigned tasks related to the Workers’ Compensation process or employee leave of absences.
- Participates in employee’s education as required by OSHA guidelines (i.e., BBP pathogens, TB, etc.) for new employees as well as an annual review for all employees.
- Completes and maintains files, records, reports, logs, investigations, and forms as required.
- Acts as a liaison between employees on leave (work related and non-work related), Human Resources Department, and the employee’s department.
- Assesses exposures (i.e., blood borne exposure) and insuring appropriate evaluation and follow-up is completed per OSHA, CDC guidelines and MGL protocol.
- Maintains current knowledge of all regulatory agency recommendations and guidelines.
- Performs other duties as requested or directed.
Required:
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Associate degree from an accredited nursing school.
- State licensed as a registered nurse.
- Three years nursing experience in emergency, occupational health, urgent care, or employee health.
- BLS certification
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
