School Nurse

Health Consultant/Registered Nurse

The school nurse strengthens and facilitates the educational process by improving and protecting the health status of children. The major focus of school nursing services is the prevention of illness and disability, and the early detection and correction of health problems. The school nurse is uniquely qualified in preventive health, health assessment, and referral procedure and supports the education process by working to assure the health of the students.

Essential duties and responsibilities include performing necessary medical procedures on students, training school personnel to perform necessary health related procedures, assessing student health needs and administering or delegating health-related tasks, developing policies, procedures and work standards for school health program, monitoring compliance of school health program with federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies, participating as an active member of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with other child-support agencies in designing and providing a school health program, working as a liaison between staff, parents, student and physician as it relates to medical issues, coordinating vision, hearing and other health screening activities, developing nursing care plans and health care plans for students, consulting with out-center programs regarding medical concerns, administering, recording and monitoring medications for students, providing first aid care and medically prescribed services, maintaining security of school health supplies, serving as a resource person on health issues, providing staff development on health-related topics for school personnel, providing follow-up evaluations on students as required, recommending corrective action where problems are identified, conducting home and local-based school visits when appropriate, corresponding with parents on health needs of children, recording immunizations, health findings and other relevant health data, reporting all appropriate communicable diseases to the Health Department, providing families with communications that are related to identifying cases of communicable diseases discovered in the school building, evaluating students and staff for wellness or sickness, coordinating First Aid and CPR training for staff, maintaining and inventory necessary medical supplies, participating in maturation class for staff and students, seeking regular opportunities for professional growth, attending regularly scheduled staff meetings, adhering to YCS policies and procedures, and adhering to professional, ethical and legal standards of practice. Provides clinical educational opportunities for students of nursing. Have regular and predictable attendance.