School Nurse (RN) - Victory Learning Center at Ridge

Are you a compassionate, dedicated nurse who wants to make a meaningful difference in the lives of students? Victory Learning Center at Ridge is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team!

As a key member of our school community, you will serve as an educator, advocate, liaison, and consultant on health-related issues for students, families, and staff. This is more than just a nursing role—it’s an opportunity to truly impact lives every day.

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Additional Information:

• Full Time

• MTWThF 7:30a-3:30p

• Hourly Rate: Based on relevant years of licensed experience

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse is an integral part of the Victory Learning School program in supporting an optimum physical, mental, emotional and social climate for all students and staff. The school nurse acts as an educator, advocate, liaison and consultant on health related issues for students, families and school personnel.

Essential Job Duties:

1. Conduct medical assessment of individuals.

2. Decide interventions following the nursing process.

3. Provide education on medical issues and concerns to individuals, their families and employees as indicated on their plan of care and diagnosis.

4. Monitor the medical states of the individuals of their care and adjust as appropriate.

5. Perform any other duties listed on the daily/weekly/monthly/semi-annually/annually site specific responsibility checklist.

6. Participates as the health specialist in the child education evaluation team to develop the health individualized educational plan. (I.E.P.)

7. Attends multi-disciplinary team meetings and staff meetings as directed by the principal.

8. Maintains all required health records per school regulation.

Skills:

• Customer skills

• Computer skills

• Monitoring /Assessment skills

Competencies:

• Communication: Oral and written

• Decision-making ability: The aptitude to extract, interpret, integrate and manage information correctly and make timely and concise decisions for the best course of action, among multiple alternatives, to enable the decision-making process to take place on a higher level in order to achieve objectives.

• Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms

• Teamwork ability: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job

• Attention to detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks

Education:

Minimum Degree Required: AAS /BSN Degree from an accredited Nursing school

Experience:

Minimum Experience Required: 2 years

Required License/Registration/ Certification: Registered Nurse (RN) NYS Licensure

Physical Requirements:

The following physical requirements must be evaluated by a physician prior to entry into a Nursing program. Upon admission to the Nursing program, you will be required at that time to have a physical and have a doctor complete our required form, as to your abilities with regards to these physical requirements.

•Strength: Sufficient to assist with lifting and transferring a patient, and perform CPR

•Mobility: Sufficient mobility to bend, stoop, and bend down to the floor; ability to move around rapidly; and to move in small, confined areas.

•Hearing: Sufficient to hear through the stethoscope to discriminate sounds; to hear cries for help; to hear alarms on equipment and emergency signals; and various overhead pages.

•Vision: Sufficient to make physical assessments of patients and equipment.

•Communication: Able to communicate in both verbal and written formats; and interact with clients, staff, and faculty supervisors.

Job Details

Job Function Non-Essential

Pay Type Hourly

Hiring Min Rate 36.5 USD

Hiring Max Rate 45 USD