Current openings:

Please pass these along - always happy to pay a referral bonus if the nurse is hired!

Job # 20-57
Position: Occupational Health or Urgent Care Nurse ( RN )
Location: Woburn, MA
Status: Full time – flexible hours
Duties:  
  • Performs health screenings and health assessments
  • Evaluation & Treatment of injuries and illnesses
  • Wellness programs & immunizations
  • Performs Disability and Workers' Compensations RTW case management functions.

Job # 20-58
Position: RN
Location: Marlborough, MA
Status: 3 days a week
Type: Corporate Office
Duties:
  • Evaluation and treatment of work related injuries and follow up
  • Urgent care for minor, non-work related illnesses and injuries
  • Disability & Workers Comp Case Management
  • Ergonomics
  • Work closely with safety

Job # 20-59
Position: RN - COVID-19 Resource
Location: Waltham, MA,
Status: full time Oct 1 – Nov 20
Duties: 
·       Answer employee questions regarding COVID & return to work
·       Maintain reports of testing outcomes for daily employee clearance
·       Communicate results to Human Resources
·       Manage Health Attestation Forms and answer related questions
·       Consult with employees that test positive and communicate with site HR and leadership
·       Lead contact tracing for employees that test positive and coordinate communications

Job # 20-62
Position: Occupational Health NP or RN
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Biotech Research Facility
Status: Thursday & Friday – temp position
Duties:
  • Conducts medical surveillance evaluations.
  • Ensures appropriate post-exposure triage, treatment
  • Evaluates and treats work related injuries and illnesses.
  • Performs vaccine and TB administration.

Job # 20-61
Position: Occupational Health Nurse ( RN )
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Biotech – research & development
Status: 1-2 days a week - flexible
Duties:  
  • Performs health screenings and health assessments
  • Evaluation & Treatment of injuries and illnesses
  • Medical screening and surveillance
  • Wellness programs
  • Immunizations
 
Job # 20-53
Position: RN
Location: Various locations in Mass: Westborough, Watertown, Cambridge, Avon
Type: Construction site & companies
Status: early morning – 4 hour shifts, some are 8 hours
Duties:
  • Review COVID questionnaires
  • Take temperatures
  • Triage and treatment of injuries

Job # 20-56
Position: RN
Location: Sutton, MA
Type: Food services
Status: early morning: 4:50 am to 7:50 am. (pays $50/hr)
Monday to Friday with an occasional Saturday.
Happy to do a job share
 
Duties:
  • Review COVID questionnaires
  • Take temperatures

Job # 20-47
Position: RN
Location: Somerville, MA
Type: Hospital based COVID call center Must have experience with Epic
Status: 3- 5 days a week, 8 am – 4:30 pm, weekends also available
Duties: 
  • Covid resource person
  • Make appropriate referrals
  • Provide work clearances
  • Documentation of interactions

Job # 20-46
Position: Occupational or Employee Health NP
Location: Weymouth, MA
Type: On site occupational health center
Status: Full time, Monday to Friday (would consider 4 days a week)
Duties:
  • Travel immunizations and TB testing.
  • Manage Pre-employment Clearance
  • Triaging work related injuries,
  • Manage Worker’s Compensation program & Return-to-Work program,
 
Job # 20-38
Position: Occupational Health Nurse ( RN )
Location: Allston, MA
Type: Pharmaceutical
Status: Part time – Fridays 6:30 a-3 pm, 
Duties:  
  • Evaluation & Treatment of injuries and illnesses
  • Medical screening and surveillance
  • Wellness programs & immunizations
  • Performs Disability and Workers' Compensations RTW case management.
  • Immunizations

Job # 20-55
Position: RN
Location: Plainfield, CT
Status: Per diem
Duties:
  • Evaluation and treatment of work related injuries and follow up
  • Urgent care for minor, non-work related illnesses and injuries
  • Workers Comp Case Management
  • Requirements:
  • RN License
  • Previous experience in occupational health, college health or emergency or urgent care.
  • Be self-motivated and display a friendly disposition,

Job # 20-43
Position: RN: Occupational Health, Urgent Care or ER
Location: Ridgefield, CT
Type: Manufacturing 
Status: second shift 2 pm – 10 pm at least 3 days a week, possible to add a couple of day shifts in addition to the eve shifts         
Duties: 
  • Triage and treat injuries and illnesses.
  • Provide case management for the purposes of reducing illness and absenteeism.
  • Perform on-site physical assessments.
  • Wellness programs & immunizations

If you are interested in this position email a resume as an attached word document to Nancy@OccHealthConnections.com

Nancy Clover RN, COHN-S
Occupational Health Connections
978-686-9739   Fax: 978-258-2682
PO Box 2106  Methuen, MA 01844

Education

Free CNE:

How to Survive the Pandemic with An Unbroken Spirit
Actions to Take Right Now to Stay Strong and Focused
Discover how to successfully manage your mental health needs while caring for COVID-19 patients.
This webinar, part of the ANA COVID-19 webinar series, will help you survive this bleak and distressing time.
A FREE, On-Demand Webinar for ALL Nurses
The impact of caring for COVID-19 patients on nurses’ mental health is now well known. The content of this 60 minute on-demand webinar gives you the best and most up-to-date tools to stay strong and focused on your vitally important work and find calmness in the chaos.
Presented by nurse experts who serve on ANA’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation’s Strength through Resiliency Committee, this program focuses on:
• Brand-new screening resources developed to detect mental health issues in nurses caring for COVID-19 patients
• How to perform a reliable self-assessment
• Successfully deal with your own grief and bereavement in the fast-paced environment of COVID-19
• Effective ways to cope with your other emotions: Anger, loneliness, isolation, anxiety, depression, fear
• Proven, evidence-based ways to improve your resilience now and into the future
• Recommendations for tools, resources, and apps that will help you deal with the mental health challenges of caring for COVID-19
• Suicide prevention: Helping yourself and your colleagues during this difficult time
• Getting the help you need: What to do when you need additional help and where to get it



CONFERENCES:

Sept 30: College Workstation Set up and Emerging Office Ergonomics Trends


Oct 9, 10, 16: 2020 Michigan Occupational Health Conference - virtually

Oct 15: What You Need To Know About Workplace Burn Injuries

Nov 6: Webinar:
The Case for Universal Mask Wearing by the Public
Friday, November 6, 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
ZOOM opens at 11:30. Presentation begins at 11:45.
Dean Hashimoto, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Occupational Health Services
Workplace Health and Wellness, Mass General Brigham
Join Zoom meeting
Password: masks

DEC 2-5 AOHP in Austin, Tx

Dec 3-4 NECOEM/MaAOHN Conference is going virtual
www.NECOEM.org


Occ Health Info:

Vaccine Administration and Clinical Guidance
Information for healthcare and public health professionals on communication regarding vaccine decisions and specific guidelines on vaccine administration.

Top 5 Considerations When Implementing Temperature Screening Technology -- http://sumo.ly/14qZA

10 Ways to Improve Patient Interactions While Wearing a Mask https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/generalprofessionalissues/88113

OSHA Answers to frequently asked questions about face coverings, surgical masks and respirators in the workplace.

This is an excellent resource for RTW employees & mental health

OSHA's poster that shows employers and workers how to properly wear and remove a respirator is now available in 16 languages.


The Well-being Initiative.


Do you need to renew your spirometry?

the NIOSH Spirometry Training Program is extending NIOSH-approved Spirometry Training Course certificates for those with expiration dates in calendar year 2020 for 18 months from individual dates of expiration.
 
As NIOSH-approved courses are cancelled during the COVID-19 epidemic, please remember that there is a web-based option for NIOSH-approved Refresher courses. It takes about 8 hours to complete, but is open for registration even while live courses have to be cancelled. Information about this course is at: http://mctownsend.com/NIOSH-approved%20Web-based%20Spirometry%20Refresher%20Course.html and the registration form is here: http://mctownsend.com/MC_Townsend_Associates_LLC_Registration_Form%20-%202020.pdf

To qualify for any NIOSH-approved Refresher, you must have taken your most recent course within 5 years and 7 months of the current date and submit a copy of your current certificate. To take the on-line course, you additionally have to go to http://www.occspiro.com/MCTCourse.php and provide the requested information.