Professional Nurse II

Professional Nurse II

Position Number: 500593
Full Time or Part Time: Full Time
Anticipated Recruitment Range: $65,000 - $73,000
Position Type: Non-Faculty
Job Category: Non-Faculty Professional

Organizational Unit Overview:

The Division of Student Affairs comprises over 30 departments, each responsible for providing various student support, services, and educational programs accessible to the university community. With over 300 full-time employees and over 1200 student workers, the Division supports Pirate success through environments that enhance student development, engagement, belonging, well-being, and career readiness. The Division strives to be a national leader in developing student experiences that positively transform lives and communities through work that makes students the focal point of our services, policies, and programming; creates a community where all feel safe, included, and welcomed; treats each other with dignity and civility, and recognizes every individual has rights, ideas, and beliefs; maintains open and honest interactions, and delivers high-quality programming, services, and resources through continuous reflection and improvement.
Job Duties:

The Registered nurse performs professional duties through assessment, planning, implementation of evaluation, education and counseling of patients in accordance with the North Carolina Nurse Practice Act, ANA College Health Nursing Practice Standards, SHS guidelines of Nursing Care, SHS Policies and Procedures, provider's orders, and instructions form the nursing supervisor and/or Associate Director of Clinical Operations.

Accuracy required in work, precision, exactness, and accuracy is required in providing patient care and in communicating with staff. This is essential to ensure that proper care is rendered to patients during their visit at Student Health Service.

Direct Nursing Care (80%)

• Providing high quality nursing care to patients of SHS. This includes competence in patient assessment, vital signs, clinical skills, physical assessment, patient education, nursing triage.
• Rotate between nursing areas as needed, including clinic, Triage, phone triage, Nurse Access Clinic, sexual assault nursing services, health sciences location and others as necessary.
• Medication administration, including vaccines and other injectables.
• Collaboration with provider staff when evaluating patient needs.
• Critical thinking, especially in emergencies or complex situations.
• Set up for procedures and exams, chaperoning sensitive exams, and assisting with procedures
• Proper cleaning/disinfection of instruments and equipment, including use of sterilization equipment
• Concise and accurate documentation of patient encounters
• Participate in nursing outreach activities
• Participate in the late nurse rotation
• Other duties as assigned as a member of the SHS Clinical Staff.

Tracking Nurse Duties (20%)

• Reporting of communicable diseases, dog bites, and other reportable issues to public health authorities
• Ensuring follow up of abnormal lab results or provider requests for follow up
• Maintaining applicable SHS reports
• Compiling data for clinical studies as requested or annual ACHA benchmarking reports
• Coordinating post exposure tracking for blood borne exposures for clinical students

Minimum Education/Experience:

Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina.
Two years of experience
License or Certification Required by Statute or Regulation:

State of North Carolina Registered Nursing License
Preferred Experience, Skills, Training/Education:

Experience in higher education clinical setting.
Special Instructions to Applicant:

East Carolina University requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. Candidates must also submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of three references, including contact information, online.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Additional Instructions to Applicant:

In order to be considered for this position, applicants must complete a candidate profile online via the PeopleAdmin system and submit any requested documents. Additionally, applicants that possess the preferred education and experience must also possess the minimum education/experience, if applicable.
Job Close Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Initial Screening Begins: 08/12/2025

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