School Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Role and Responsibilities
The role of the PSOE School Nurse is to assess, educate and intervene as needed to maximize classroom time, minimize absences due to illness, and support a healthy school environment, while respecting the dignity and rights of the patient/client regardless of socioeconomic status, personal attributes, or nature of health problems.

Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with State and Board of Education regulations.
• Implements school programs regarding physical examinations, immunization, and sight and hearing testing.
• Provides first aid, nursing care, intervention and referrals for ill and injured students.
• Implements Board policy regarding the exclusion and readmission of students with respect to certain infectious and contagious diseases (e.g., Tuberculosis).
• Will 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).
• Reports to parents, school district personnel and physicians, and others as needed to meet student health needs.
• May be called on to provide health education to students as requested.

Program Planning and Management 

• The School Nurse will 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. May serve as a member of school teams as designated health care professional (e.g., Crisis Teams, PPT, Section 504).
• Contributes to nursing and school health through innovations in theory; practice and participation in research, including narrative and statistical reports.

Qualifications and Education 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. Job-specific training is identified and scheduled by the School Principal or direct supervisor in partnership with Paramount C-suite.

Preferred Skills

• Previous pediatric and school environment experience 
• Must demonstrate a genuine interest in the PSOE student population and its health needs.
• Ability to organize a health office and manage time
• Proficiency in technology.
• Knowledge of leadership and management principles as they relate to charter schools. 
• Knowledge of current community challenges and opportunities relating to the mission of the organization.

Additional Notes
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements: 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; 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; and to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead.

PSOE School Nurse is required to have contact with children who are ill. They must be capable of performing first aid and CPR and is regularly required to talk or hear or smell. The employee is frequently required to sit; walk; run; and use hands to perform examinations or handle tools, or controls. This job requires the ability to see clearly in close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds and to perform a 2-person lift over 50 pounds.

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

The School Nurse usually works in standard workplaces, but will frequently be required to complete tasks in a wide variety of locations within the school campus. The School Nurse works a standard workweek, but additionally may work evenings and weekends.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. Paramount Employees will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or appropriate administrator. Paramount Schools of Excellence reserve the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time.