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Employee Health Nurse (LPN/RN) – Hybrid

Medical Associates

1 Positions

ID: oFIMyfwr

Posted On 11/03/2025

Refreshed On 05/13/2026

Job Overview

Description

The Medical Associates team is seeking an energetic LPN or RN to join us as an Employee Health Nurse. In this role, you’ll partner closely with Tri-State Occupational Health and Human Resources to support the health, safety, and well-being of our employees across all locations.
 
Location and Hours:
  • Primarily based at Tri-State Occupational Health, with travel to Medical Associates locations
  • Monday–Friday, 4–4.5 days/week
    • Flex up to 5 days/week during peak periods as needed
  • Hybrid option: 50/50 split between onsite and remote once fully trained!
What You Will Be Doing: 
 
As an Employee Health Nurse, you’ll help support the health, safety, and well-being of Medical Associates employees across all locations. In this role, you’ll partner with Tri-State Occupational Health and Human Resources to support employee health programs, workplace wellness, and employee care needs.
 
Key responsibilities include:
  • Support employees through workplace injuries, illnesses, or exposures and help coordinate return-to-work plans
  • Manage employee immunizations, screenings, and health-related programs
  • Assist with workplace safety and infection prevention initiatives through training, education, and support
  • Conduct ergonomic assessments and follow up on employee incident reports and trends
  • Maintain employee health records and related documentation
  • Participate in Safety and Infection Control Committees and help support ongoing improvement efforts
  • Stay current on employee health and workplace safety best practices and help implement new programs and procedures
Essential Functions & Responsibilities: 
  • Coordinate care and follow-up for employees with work-related injuries or illnesses, including return-to-work planning
  • Communicate with employees, healthcare providers, and other partners regarding employee health needs
  • Maintain accurate documentation and reports related to employee health and workplace incidents
  • Support workplace safety and infection prevention programs across the organization
  • Conduct safety walkthroughs, ergonomic evaluations, and follow-up tracking as needed
  • Manage employee health and safety resources, including maintaining related systems and records
  • Support employee wellness initiatives including vaccinations, screenings, and health education
  • Help coordinate Safety and Infection Control Committee meetings, including agendas, meeting notes, and policy updates
  • Research and implement best practices related to employee health, wellness, and workplace safety
  • Complete additional projects and responsibilities as assigned
Skills we are looking for: 
  • Active RN or LPN license (Iowa or multistate)
  • 2+ years of nursing experience preferred (will train the right candidate!)
  • Interest in occupational/employee health (experience preferred but not required!)
Key strengths:
  • Self-starter with strong initiative
  • Organized with excellent follow-through
  • Problem-solver with critical thinking skills
  • Strong communicator and presenter
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Knowledge & Skills:
 
Education: Registered Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse degree. Iowa RN/LPN license or multistate license.
 
Experience: Experience and skills that will help you succeed in this role: solid and varied nursing background, previous employee health and/or case management experience a plus but not required, Microsoft Office Suite skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.). Policy development, training and presentation skills, active committee membership.
 
Interpersonal Skills:  A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact.  Work involves extensive personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, and/is usually of a personal or sensitive nature.  Work may involve motivating or influencing others.  Outside contacts become important (vendor reps, labs, offices, hospital, etc.) and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.
 
Other Skills: Ability to travel to multiple locations. Ability to multi-task, work in a fast-paced environment. Good computer skills as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.


Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Repetitive Motions - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.


Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP https://www.eeoc.gov/poster

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Job Details

Categories

Health Care

Location

Dubuque, IA

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

1148

Job REQ #

oFIMyfwr

# Positions

1

Start Date

20251103

End Date

20260604

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About the Company

Our mission is to provide superior healthcare and an excellent patient experience.

Medical Associates Clinic is a well-established multispecialty group practice with over 170 providers and a staff of over 1,000 health care professionals and support personnel. The group was founded in 1924 and is Iowa' oldest multispecialty group practice. Today, Medical Associates Clinic is the area' leading health care provider and only multispecialty group practice. Medical Associates Clinic has been recognized since 1998 as a ΓÇ£better performing practiceΓÇ¥ by the Medical Group Management Association.

In 1982, Medical Associates developed the Tri-State' first health maintenance organization, Medical Associates Health Plans, which offers comprehensive health benefits to over 400 employers and 45,000 members. Medical Associates Health Plans has maintained an ΓÇ£ExcellentΓÇ¥ rating, the highest level of accreditation possible by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, for 13 consecutive years.

Medical Associates Clinic offers several locations from which to seek medical care, including facilities at 1500 Associates Drive, 1000 Langworthy, and 4155 Pennsylvania Ave in Dubuque, Iowa; as well as facilities in Bellevue, Cascade, Dyersville, Iowa; Cuba City, Lancaster, Platteville, Wisconsin; and Galena, Illinois.