Public Health Nurse - Steuben County
Steuben county, NYJob$62–76K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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Steuben County seeks a Public Health Nurse to provide skilled nursing care and help protect and improve community health. The role combines direct care with prevention, education, investigation, and community health activities, including home assessments, communicable disease investigations, and immunization clinics. Nurses collaborate with local professionals and organizations, provide education and counseling, and participate in community health planning. The work requires independence and professional judgment in field-based work throughout the County.
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Steuben County is seeking a Public Health Nurse to provide skilled nursing care while helping protect and improve the health of individuals, families, and communities across the County. This is an opportunity for a nurse who wants to use their clinical skills beyond a traditional healthcare setting. Public Health Nurses combine direct patient care with prevention, education, investigation, and community health activities. The work is varied: on a given day, a nurse might provide nursing care and assessments to newborns and their mothers in their homes, investigate a communicable disease or potential health risk, support an immunization clinic, provide health education, or connect an individual or family with needed services. The role also provides an opportunity to work across disciplines and throughout the community. Public Health Nurses collaborate with physicians, nurses, schools, community organizations, and other professionals; provide education and counseling to individuals and groups; participate in community health planning; and serve as a nursing resource for others working to address local health needs. Your nursing skills. A broader reach. For a nurse who values variety, this role offers a different way to practice. Youll still use assessment, clinical judgment, patient education, and nursing skills at the heart of the professionbut youll also have the opportunity to look beyond an individual encounter, helping prevent illness, identify health risks, and address conditions affecting the health of the wider community. The work requires independence and professional judgment, including field-based work throughout the County. Qualifications Candidates must possess: A Bachelors degree in Nursing from a regionally accredited or New York State-registered college or university. A current license and registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State. Compensation & Benefits The position offers: Salary: $61,669 $76,397 annually Participation in the New York State Retirement System (NYSRS). Comprehensive health and dental coverage. Generous leave policies, including 13 paid holidays. Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities. Potential eligibility for federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), subject to program requirements.
How this job compares
Set against the 29,588 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$62–76K/yr
- New York median$86–118K/yr482 salary ranges
- US median$80–110K/yr2,499 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $69K, is 34% below the New York median midpoint ($104K) — in the lowest quarter of Nurse salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,443 open Nurse jobs in New York and 29,588 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Trinity Health167 open
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- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (12,263 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,287 of the 29,588 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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