| Description | Title: School Nurse
Reports to: Director of Pupil Services and Principals
Work Activity Classification: Light
Employment Status: Full-time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Qualifications:
1. Bachelor’s Degree (BA) or equivalent from a four-year college or university
2. One to four years related experience
3. R.N. licensed by the Ohio Board of Nursing
4. School Nurse Certification desirable
General Description: Provide overall leadership and coordination of the district health care service. Includes clinical assessments of students and staff; offer clinical nursing care services, as appropriate; secures and administers student medications; maintenance and review of student health care records, including immunization compliance; provides health care education to students and staff.
Essential Functions:
- Collaborates with school staff, clinic aides, district nurses and school physicians in developing and implementing a total school health program.
- Delegates nursing tasks to designated staff in accordance with Ohio’s Nurse Practice Act, documents and maintains records of clinical training.
- Problem solve clinical issues and student, parent or staff concerns.
- Determines annual health status of students from emergency medical card information, past pertinent health history, student observation, consultation and compiles annual confidential student health concerns for staff.
- Assures that health screenings and referrals mandated by the State and District Policy are completed either by the aide or building nurse.
- Utilizes professional knowledge and skills to personally assess or gather information from school staff to evaluate the signs and symptoms of student illness or injury, provides or recommends appropriate nursing interventions, and refers staff or students for medical or dental follow-up.
- Provides health counseling to students and staff, and refers to physicians, mental health counselors and agencies after consultation with building administration.
- Documents and communicates to appropriate school staff, the nature of a student’s injury, illness, or special health care need, and offers recommendations for classroom management.
- Participates in the identification, reporting and management of students suspected of being abused or neglected.
- Assists in the administration and monitoring of student medications and treatments according to District Policy, and Ohio Law.
- Obtains consent and administers Hepatitis-B vaccines to District employees, and maintains records according to District Policy and OSHA requirements.
- Prepares student individual health care plans, and as requested attends 504/IEP meetings for students with medical health care needs.
- Participates in the medical evaluation and school management of special education and medically fragile students.
- Follows State, County and City Health Department guidelines for control and management of communicable diseases in consultation with the District Physician as needed.
- Promotes environmental health and safety for staff and students.
- Prepares and submits required State, Local and District Health reports.
- Participates in Professional Development through attendance at appropriate District and Nursing conferences.
- Provides students with preventative health education opportunities.
- Provides medication training to medically unlicensed staff.
- Assures compliance with District Policy and Ohio immunization laws through appropriate referral to physicians and health care facilities for immunizations.
- Assures compliance with District Policy and State laws regarding student immunizations, exemptions, and exclusions by assessing documenting, and maintaining the status of all student immunization records.
- Serves as a liaison between school administrators, school staff, community physicians, health care agencies and the student/family regarding health issues.
- Provides educational inservice/training to clinic aides annually or as needed.
- Responds to inquiries from principals, student, staff and parents following District guidelines regarding health issues.
- Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or his/her designee.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Refer students in need of medical and dental care to the proper local agency.
- Provide individual and group health counseling to students and parents.
- Coordinate dental health program and screenings.
- Coordinate and conduct adolescent development and HIV/AIDS education.
- Schedule bloodborne pathogens in-services for district.
- Act as CPR instructor for staff and students.
- Plan and coordinate elementary and high school health fairs.
- Schedule times for federal, state and local board of education required testing, EIP completion, annual review and placement meetings.
- Coordinate and supervise local, county, state and federal assistance and grant programs, e.g., district testing, special education units; secure and distribute necessary test forms.
- Provide counsel and assistance to teachers in testing and writing IEP’s.
- Assist in the preparation of budgets pertaining to special education services.
- Serve as liaison between school district and county board of education office, and other educational entities.
- Serve as a role model for students.
- Respond to routine questions and requests in an appropriate manner.
- Serve on committees and cocurricular activities as agreed upon.
- Research and write grants as applicable to improve service delivery for students.
- Develop and revise/update health department policies, procedures, guidelines, and forms in order to standardize procedures and forms used.
- Communicate with school personnel and community via development of a web page that allows public access to school policies, forms and health/wellness information.
- Serve as a liaison with area hospitals, clinics, physicians, dentists, optometrists, and community health services in order to meet the health needs of students and staff (e.g., coordinate vision van, mobile dentist).
- Develop training procedures for new rules and other “best practices” for schools passed down by the Ohio Department of Health (e.g., medication administration policy and training process).
- Episodes, and as needed.
- Ensure district has the policies, procedures, and needed forms in place to be compliant with the Ohio Department of Health.
- Perform other duties as assigned by Superintendent and/or Principals.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work effectively with others.
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
- Effective, active listening skills.
- Organizational and problem solving skills..
- Skills and knowledge in equipment preparation/operation.
- Ability to stay up to date with new technology.
- Nursing procedures as covered by Ohio Revised Code 4323.28 and national standards of school nursing practice.
- General operating knowledge of computers and related software.
Additional Working conditions:
- Occasional requirement to travel, both daily and overnight.
- Occasional weekend/evening/summer work.
- Frequent exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue.
- Occasional interaction among unruly children.
Terms of Employment:
Salary and work year to be established by the board.
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