T3 Shelter Nurse
Maxim Healthcare/(San Diego County)
San Diego, CA
01.2022 - 04.2022
- Providing communicable disease prevention and non-communicable disease management education, resources, and guidance to shelter staff and residents. • Assisting clients in understanding how COVID-19. impacted their physical health and mental well-being.
- Surveillance Conducting communicable disease outbreak monitoring.
- • Reporting communicable disease outbreaks to San Diego Department of Public Health.
- Initiate isolation/quarantine protocols for clients with COVID-19.
- • Assisting with disease surveillance activities (e.g. contacting hospitals & health care providers regarding signs of infectious diseases, communicable diseases, or reportable communicable diseases). •
- Monitor client population’s health (presence of chronic disease, communicable disease and injuries). • Evaluating client’s past medical history and pre-existing conditions that may have been exacerbated by COVID-19 emergency or occupancy in shelter.