School Nurse-Part Time

School Nurse

Category: Classified

FLSA Exempt: No

Job Goal: To coordinate and provide school health services to students.

Reports To: Assistant Superintendent

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Current valid state license as a Registered Nurse (preferred). LPNs with strong work experience will be considered.
• Ability to work well with students, parents, and staff.
• Physical demands must be able to stand and walk the majority of the day; lift and carry twenty (20) to thirty (30) pounds frequently, and up to one hundred (100) pounds occasionally; push or pull same amounts frequently. Job may also require frequent bending and stooping.

Job Duties:

• Flexibility and availability to cover at any Berrien County School when the nurse is out.
• Assess sick/injured staff and students.
• Enter health clinic forms into Powerschool and file.
• Work with parents/guardians on medication consent forms and signatures.
• Fax consents to doctor's offices and billing offices.
• Enter student medication dosages into EMR and chart medication dosages given to students in EMR.
• Contact parents/guardians for inhalers and asthma action plans for those students with asthma.
• Contact parents/guardians of those students with seizures and keep SAP up to date as well as emergency seizure medication at school.
• Contact parents/guardians of those students with allergies and keep a UTD allergy action plan and medication on file.
• Contact parents/guardians of those students with Diabetes and keep UTD info on plan.
• Help to train teachers/staff about asthma, seizures, allergies, diabetes or any other health diagnosis the teachers/staff would need to know about.
• Assist nurses when the dental van is at school.
• Send home tele-med packets with students. After receiving packets back, check that they are correctly filled out, document in the computer and file.
• Administer tele-med appointments at school.
• Order supplies for the nurse's clinic.
• Assist with EpiPen/Albuterol protocol paperwork and ordering and receiving those medications for the clinic.
• Make sure all medication and supplies are not expired in the clinics.
• Assist with CPR training of faculty and staff.
• When covering clinics, fill out workers' comp paperwork as needed.
• Attend and provide medical knowledge in parent/teacher meetings when needed.
• Help file all medical paperwork.
• Assist nurse with billing.
• Assist nurse with identifying which students with certain health diagnoses ride the bus and provide info for the bus drivers as well as teaching when needed.
• Scoliosis screening for the middle school.
• Help BHS with immunization compliance and DPH audits
• Assist with STOP the BLEED training for staff.

Terms of Employment: Position works part-time

Evaluation: Performance is evaluated in accordance with the personnel policy on classified evaluations.