This 10-month position involves providing preventive and acute health care as part of the Schools' exceptional children's services. The School Nurse performs supervisory and emergency medical and administrative work, including health screenings, medical examinations, and treatments for students with physical and mental handicaps. The role also includes supervising a Healthroom Nursing Assistant and providing training to teachers in first aid and emergency care.
Responsibilities
Respond to emergency medical situations involving students and perform necessary medical work in accordance with established protocols for Basic Life Support
Administer necessary emergency medical care, which may require the use of suction units, immobilization equipment, syringes, and medications
Administer or supervise the administration of medications to students with physician or health care provider orders
Perform prescribed treatments or supervise routine treatments with physician order, as governed by the Nurse Practice Act
Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation when confronted with a pulseless non-breathing patient
Perform patient assessment, basic life support techniques, oxygen administration, hemorrhage control, treatment for shock, bandaging and dressing soft tissue injuries, splinting fractures and dislocations, treatment of injuries to the head, face, eye, neck, and spine, treatment of injuries to the chest, abdomen and genitalia, provision of basic life support for medical injuries, assisting in emergency normal and abnormal childbirth, emergency treatment of injuries as a result of exposure to heat and cold, treatment of burns, lifting and moving patients for transfer to a medical facility, and extrication of patients from confined areas, if allowed by the Beaufort County Board of Education and/or State Board of Education, and in accordance with the North Carolina Nurse Practice Act
Assign, direct, and supervise activities of an Assistant and volunteer personnel, ensuring adherence to established medical protocols, policies, and procedures
Assist and advise subordinates, resolving problems as non-routine situations arise
Make decisions regarding delegation of nursing activities to unlicensed persons based on the Nurse Practice Act
Administer or make recommendations for routine personnel matters affecting subordinates, including recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, assigning, scheduling, granting leave, appraising, and disciplining
Oversee and participate in health screening of students at the start of each school year, including dental, vision, and hearing screenings
Ensure that students have current immunizations
Maintain health and medical records of students
Assist and advise school staff in recognition of health problems in students
Monitor daily health checks of students and make appropriate referrals for professional services
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Contact parents to advise of observed health or medical problems and/or emergency incidents, and make or assist parents in making necessary medical appointments
Develop a nursing care plan for every student with special needs
Make oral presentations to various exceptional children's services groups as part of in-service training, including such topics as first aid, emergency care, and treatments for specific health problems or medical emergencies
Counsel individual students, groups of students, parents, school staff, etc., about specific health concerns
Assist school administrators and appropriate committees in developing health education programs for school staff, parents, and students
Serve as primary liaison between school and private medical professionals and clinics, human services agencies, and other institutions or agencies providing services to students and/or their families
Advise medical professionals and others of students' medical histories, incidents, treatments, etc., and provide records
Prepare and maintain comprehensive notes, records, and reports of medical evaluations, emergency incidents, treatments, consultations, etc., to document students' medical histories, nursing activities, and treatment provided
Serve on various school and/or school system committees, attending meetings and participating in other activities
Attend seminars, conferences, workshops, classes, lectures, etc., to enhance and maintain knowledge of trends and developments in the field of nursing, with emphasis on care of handicapped juveniles
Review professional journals, attend association and professional meetings, and otherwise maintain contacts with nursing and medical professionals to facilitate exchange of information
Conduct tours of exceptional children's school for groups of nursing students, as requested
Perform other related work as required
Requirements
Associate degree in nursing
2 to 5 years of professional nursing experience, including knowledge of potential health problems of school-age and adolescent children, both healthy and those with chronic conditions and handicapping conditions; or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities
Registered as a Nurse by the North Carolina Board of Nursing
Possess a School Nurse certificate within three years of employment
Ability to operate a variety of equipment including computers, nebulizers, adding machines, blood pressure machines, oxygen tanks, suction machines, feeding pumps, etc.
Ability to exert up to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects
Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things
Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including giving instructions, assignments and/or directions to assistants or subordinates
Ability to read a variety of correspondence, referrals, medical records, newsletters, notes, charts, etc.
Ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, plans, logs, charts, etc.
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; deal with several abstract and concrete variables
Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions
Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently using medical terminology
Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages
Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape
Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using medical equipment
Ability to handle a variety of office machines, etc.
Minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination
Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color
Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
Adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress
Ability to talk and hear, and communicate via telephone
Thorough knowledge of the North Carolina Nurse Practice Act
Considerable knowledge of emergency and routine medical procedures
Considerable knowledge of health care agencies and institutions in the area
Considerable knowledge of current literature, trends and developments in the field of school nursing
General knowledge of the principles of supervision, organization and administration
Skill in performing health screenings and medical examinations
Ability to perform a variety of emergency medical procedures
Ability to train others in first aid and emergency care
Ability to assess the needs of students and develop a plan to meet those needs
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and to develop simple reports from those records
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
Important Details
Start date: October 22, 2026
About the Company
Beaufort County Schools provides exceptional children's services.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools formed in 1963 with the merger of the Winston-Salem and Forsyth County districts.
