About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The School Nurse assesses, educates, and intervenes to maximize classroom time, minimize absences due to illness, and support a healthy school environment. The role respects the dignity and rights of patients and clients.
Responsibilities
- Maintain compliance with State and Board of Education regulations
- Implement school programs regarding physical examinations, immunization, and sight and hearing testing
- Provide first aid, nursing care, intervention, and referrals for ill and injured students
- Implement Board policy regarding the exclusion and readmission of students with respect to certain infectious and contagious diseases (e.g., Tuberculosis)
- Maintain accurate records and documentation in accordance with state and federal law, and Board of Education policies
- Assist in developing an individual health care plan (ICHP) when needed, which includes: specific goals, nursing diagnosis, and interventions with clear actions unique to students’ needs and for incorporation into the student’s individualized educational plan (IEP)
- Report to parents, school district personnel and physicians, and others as needed to meet student health needs
- Provide health education to students as requested
- Collaborate with students, parents, school district staff, and community agencies to safeguard continuity of care for students
- Participate in establishing and maintaining a comprehensive school health program
- Serve as a member of school teams as designated health care professional (e.g., Crisis Teams, PPT, Section 504)
- Contribute to nursing and school health through innovations in theory; practice and participation in research, including narrative and statistical reports
Requirements
- IN registered Nursing License
- Working knowledge of federal, state and local laws and regulations affecting school health services
- Current certification as an RN
- Annual training and/or professional development is required for all PSOE employees
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time
- Manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer
- Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone
- Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
- Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead
