School Nurse

School Nurse Job Overview

At the East Orange Community Charter School, the School Nurse enhances the educational process, assists pupils and staff in attaining and/or maintaining optimum health, and promotes positive health habits and attitudes.

Qualifications: Valid RN license and/or School Nurse certificate required.

Responsibilities:

Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children. Provides health assessments. Obtains a health history. Screens and evaluates findings of deficit in vision, hearing, growth, etc. Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment. Identifies abnormal health findings. Develops and implements a student health plan Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel. Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students Plans and implements school health management protocols Participates in home visits when indicated to assess the family needs as related to the child's health. Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases. Provides health education and anticipatory guidance. Provides direct health education, and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health. Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health. Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction. Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community.