About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct care using professional assessment skills, the nursing process, individualized healthcare plans (IHPs), and established school health protocols
- Provide health counseling and instruction to individual students
- Assess student problems, communicate with parents regarding individual students, and ensure appropriate referrals and follow up as needed
- Serve as a liaison between school personnel, the family, healthcare professionals, and the community
- Notify parents of accident or illness
- Secure emergency medical care for students as needed
- Develop and implement individualized healthcare plans (IHPs) and evaluate outcomes of skilled and direct nursing care and procedures for medically fragile students to ensure safe integration of the student into the school environment
- Serve as health advocate for students
- Ensure that medications are administered to students according to district policy and procedures
- Establish and implement effective procedures for carrying out mandatory screening programs
- May make home visits to help with student health problems as necessary
- Participate in development of campus health education curriculum
- Educate faculty and staff as needed on health related topics
- Provide health education to individuals and groups including contributing to campus communications to parents and the local community regarding health issues
- Collaborate closely with campus principal and other staff and provide leadership to ensure a healthy school environment
- Work to meet the health needs of the general school population and those students with identified health conditions
- Participate in Admission, Review, and Dismissal Committee (ARD) meetings of students with identified health needs and develop Individual Health Plans (IHPs)
- Work with district personnel regarding implementation of IEP goals and services
- Advise campus administration in crisis or emergency situations and participate in assessment and reporting of suspected child abuse
- Work with health services coordinator to develop and coordinate continuing evaluation of campus health program and make changes based on findings
- Develop and recommend campus policies and procedures
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or nursing degree from an accredited college or university
- Valid registered nurse (RN) or advance practice RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing
- Current certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/AED
- Must agree to complete BSN within three years if not already complete
