Offered a PHN job!!

Mia415 · May 4, 2014

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 :)

finallyRN7, BSN · May 13, 2014

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!

Mia415 · May 16, 2014

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?

finallyRN7, BSN · May 16, 2014

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! :-)

finallyRN7, BSN · May 16, 2014

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!

klone, MSN, RN · May 17, 2014

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.

finallyRN7, BSN · May 17, 2014

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

Mia415 · May 29, 2014

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?!

Britnursecalibound · Jun 28, 2014

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

sourapril · Jul 11, 2014

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. :)