Offered a PHN job!!

Hi! I know this post is from a year ago so a belated congratulations to you! How are you liking it? Any cool stories? I too have been working as. PHN for 5 months now and I am loving it!!! I'm with the maternal child adolescent health dept, nurse home visiting program. Congrats again! Love to hear about people with the same passion as me :)

Mia415, congratulations on your PHN position. I've run across a job ad and....

I'm curious if you're familiar with a PHN's role when assigned/hired in a position of "shared county coverage"? Does this mean the nurse will have a consistent and rotating "clinic hopping" schedule or is it only when a health clinic in a particular county is short staff?

Thanks in advance for your insight!

Hi finallyrn7, thank you! Honestly I am not sure what that would mean, so I cannot give you any insight unfortunately. I would just call HR or the department and ask them. Different types of PHNs have very very different types of job descriptions. All I can tell you is for my job I have nothing to do with any clinics, I do home visits. Our referrals for which clients we go see are distributed among us 5 by zip codes. So I have not come across the term shared county coverage. Maybe you could clarify in what context that was used? Or what department the position is for?

Mia415, I suppose I'll have to ask HR for clarification. The ad stated the location of the job is @ the district office and stated it was a "shared county coverage" position. So I'm guessing it means ill have to cover more than one county which will involve travel & long commutes. I appreciate you for responding. Thanks! :-)

Olliesmommy1005 & mia415, would either of you like to share some of the questions that were asked during your interview for a PHN besides the standard/typical ones? Thanks!

Honestly, just practice up on behavioral interviewing. I was not asked any questions that were specific to community health, just the typical behavioral interviewing questions.

Klone, okay thanks. I'll keep this in mind for future reference.

Finally RN! I'm sorry I haven't logged into this site for a long time! Did you already have the interview?? If not I can still send you a copy of the questions I was asked. And if you did have the interview - how did it go?!

Hi Mia415,

Do you think you would be willing to share some of those questions with me please. I am still awaiting my PHN cert and then will be applying to PHN positions in CA.

Thanks

Congrats! I did home visiting program (none-NFP) for about 8 months and now I am switching to Immunization/Communicable Disease Control. Life is good in Public Health. :)