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Family Health Nurse Educator

February 4th, 2010 by admin | Filed under nurse


A TRUE TALE
Patricia Raymond, RN, graduated from Rhode Island College in 1985. Before becoming a public health nurse, she worked in community hospitals and agencies. Eventually, she took a position at the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s only juvenile correction facility, where she supervised and provided health care to incarcerated adolescents. That job taught her to think about population based health care, and she decided to remain in public health. When a position at the Rhode Island Department of Health became available, Raymond was hired as a public health nurse in Children’s Preventive Services in the Division of Family Health.

Profiling the job
Patricia Raymond is a public health nurse as well as the clinical liaison for Children’s Preventive Services at the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH). The RIDOH Division of Family Health has five subdivisions: the Adolescent and Young Adult Medical Advisory; Early Intervention Program; Women, Infants, and Children; Immunization for Children; and the Rhode Island Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. Raymond is active primarily in the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Immunization and Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention programs.

Raymond’s other responsibilities include conducting surveillance, tracking vaccine-preventable disease and follow-up of vaccine-adverse event reports, and promoting and developing lead screening and immunization programs for children and their families. She conducts classes in the education of health care professionals, school nurses and the public, including parents. Rhode Island has achieved very high rates of childhood vaccination and lead-toxicity testing. Raymond credits her state’s continued success to the content of hers and other children’s services, adult education classes, and especially to numerous partnerships among health care professionals, community-based organizations and state agencies. Without those collaborations, Raymond says, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to deliver a full range of services.

The Immunization and Lead Poisoning Prevention programs resemble a microcosm of the larger public health department and point out the myriad opportunities for people interested in working in Children’s Preventive Health Services.

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