School Nurse

About This Role

This professional school nursing position is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services. The role aims to maximize in-class time by reducing health-related absenteeism, minimize health problems that impair learning, promote independent functioning, and raise awareness of healthy behaviors among students, staff, and the community.

Responsibilities

• Apply nursing practice to the unique and diverse needs of individuals, groups, and populations of schools
• Promote, implement, and uphold the values and ethics of the nursing profession and professional standards of nursing practice as established by the North Carolina Nursing Practice Act and rules
• Follow federal, state, and local health practice statutes, district policies, procedures, and administrative guidelines
• Serve as a medical resource and health and safety advocate for students and staff
• Assume responsibility for health assessment, healthcare planning, intervention and implementation of healthcare services, evaluation, case management, referral, and follow-up for students
• Play a key role in identifying healthcare needs, safety concerns, availability of health services, resources, and treatment measures
• Provide instruction, counseling, training, and guidance in the maintenance of good health practices and communicable disease prevention
• Serve as a direct link between the student, family, healthcare provider, and community agency in securing access to health services and in assuring continuity of healthcare delivery for students
• Collaborate with families, school staff, various disciplines within the school setting, and with outside agencies, providers, and/or organizations to identify, minimize, eliminate, and/or manage health-related barriers to student learning in the academic setting
• Function independently under state and local education agency guidelines and policies without on-site supervision
• Work self-directed and clinically autonomous
• Educate, delegate, train, and supervise unlicensed personnel in safely delivering healthcare services to students with special needs
• Apply knowledge of current nursing research and theory to daily practice
• Triage and make independent and timely nursing decisions
• Establish and maintain a professional image, respect, and effective working relationships with students, peers, parents, and other professionals
• Deal tactfully with others, exercise good judgment in eliciting information and appraising situations
• Accurately record services rendered and interpret and explain records, reports, activities, health care plans, accommodations, and medical interventions
• Communicate in both written and oral format
• Develop, maintain, and secure student health records