NURSE - REGISTERED NURSE - SY 26-27

School Nurse (RN)

The School Nurse (R.N.) provides professional nursing services to support the health and wellness of students and staff. This position plays a critical role in the educational environment by addressing the physical, emotional, and social health needs of students, promoting a safe and healthy school climate, and coordinating care with families and community health providers. The School Nurse also supports compliance with health mandates and ensures that school health policies are upheld.

Essential duties and responsibilities include assessing and evaluating students' health and its impact on educational progress, counseling students, parents, and school personnel regarding health concerns, identifying students with health needs that interfere with learning, providing programs for disease prevention and control, coordinating school health services with other health and education professionals, collaborating with community health programs and state agencies, monitoring school facilities for health and safety recommendations, responding to health and social issues such as child abuse, substance use, nutrition, and teen pregnancy, organizing and conducting mandated health screenings, acting as a health resource for students, families, and school staff, administering medications in accordance with school policy, conducting home visits as needed to assess student health and home environment, completing home evaluations and participating in special education team meetings, maintaining accurate and up-to-date student health records, documenting first aid, illness care, and accident reports, ensuring compliance with immunization requirements and managing communicable disease protocols, maintaining appropriate first aid supplies and equipment, and performing other nursing duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include strong clinical nursing assessment and care planning skills, ability to communicate effectively with students, families, and staff, knowledge of child development, pediatric, and community health issues, understanding of state health mandates, laws, and school health policies, ability to maintain confidentiality and accurate records, skilled in collaboration and coordination with multidisciplinary teams, proficiency in English; bilingual preferred, ability to use electronic health records and documentation systems, and familiarity with public health resources and referral systems.

Qualifications and requirements include a graduate of a professional nursing program approved by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing, current license as a registered professional nurse in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, bachelor's degree in nursing required, 1-3 years of experience in pediatrics, community health, or a related field, eligible for certification in school nursing by the Massachusetts Department of Education, and proficient in English; bilingual candidates preferred.