Nurse (4779)

School Nurse

Job Goal: Implement health services for all students and staff using legal, professionally recognized practice according to policy.

Qualifications: Registered Nurse with a current Arizona License. Prefer Nurse to have Standard or Provisional Certificate from Arizona State Board of Nursing or National School Nurse Certification from the School Nurse Organization of America. Current CRP certification. Must pass a background clearance. Must obtain an Arizona IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card.

Term of Employment: 10 Months; 203 Days

Compensation: Per QCUSD salary schedule for applicable position

Benefits: As per QCUSD District policy

Reports To: Principal

Evaluation: Initial evaluation to be completed no later than ninety (90) days after first day of work; thereafter, annually by supervisor.

Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-3 p.m.

Classification: Support Service Professionals- Certified

Performance Responsibilities: Responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Maintain a current cumulative health record on each student.
• Provide appropriate referral and intervention for all students.
• Assist the school staff/administration in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating school health programs.
• As a health resource, arrange parent and teacher information as requested, parent conferences for health problems or needs and refer parents to community resources.
• Use established process to evaluate all phases of nursing care.
• Monitor the N.C.P. (Nursing Care Plan) of student with chronic illnesses or special health care needs.
• Advise school staff regarding modification of educational programs and/or environment to meet health needs of individual students.
• Provide health assessments of students on an as-needed basis.
• Monitors and records immunization data per applicable laws, CDC recommendations and school district policies.
• Supervise the orientation, training, and evaluation of health assistants.
• Audit health records periodically for accuracy, thoroughness, and completeness.
• Participate as a member of Student Study and Multidisciplinary teams.
• Make home visits as needed.
• Report any unsafe environmental conditions in the building or grounds to the principal.
• Identify and report suspected child abuse and neglect per applicable laws and school district policies.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned to advance district priorities.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands and arms, stand, bend or stoop. The employee is frequently required to move about the campuses and to drive to the schools and departments in the District. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Notice of Nondiscrimination: Queen Creek Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age or sexual orientation in admission and access to its programs, services, activities, or in any aspect of their operations and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. Queen Creek Unified School District also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.