Registered School Nurse

Registered Nurse/Licensed School Nurse (RN/LSN)

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100+ schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD's approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland's schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district's Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective. Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World: In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.

Location: As Assigned

Reports To: Director, Nursing and Health Services

Compensation: Related Service Provider Salary Schedule

Union: Cleveland Teachers Union

2792026 - 2027 School Year

The Registered Nurse/Licensed School Nurse (RN/LSN) is knowledgeable about and participates in the implementation of Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach in the educational setting. Based on the annual staffing plan, successful candidates may be assigned to direct multiple campuses. In general, RNs/LSNs report to the Director of Nursing and Health Services.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Contributes to the Student Support Team (SST) if applicable, 504 Plan and Evaluation Team Report (ETR), Multi-factored Evaluation (MFE), or Individual Education Plan (IEP) process
• Acts as a liaison between health and academic success
• Contributes towards recommendations of home tutoring needs
• Bridges from health plan to educational goals/learning/plan
• Teaches educational health standards
• Participates effectively in school wellness and emergency preparedness
• Recognizes Epidemiological patterns of symptoms, the implications, and develops a plan of intervention for the school community
• Assesses and manages scholars' physical and mental health to support the educational process and enhance academic success
• Keeps scholars in school and learning independently, and assesses the health and health care needs of scholars
• Plans, implements, evaluates, and modifies a plan of care based on the scholar's assessment
• Directs nursing tasks to the LPN
• Analyzes, organizes, and interprets applicable data and makes appropriate decisions, which may include health referrals
• Collaborates and communicates with the scholar, family, and others on the health care team
• Bills Medicaid for eligible services
• Participates in the building wellness team
• Conducts advanced physical and mental health assessments
• Develops individual health plans and communicates with appropriate staff and parents/caregivers
• Develops emergency action plans and communicates with appropriate staff and parents/caregivers
• Coordinates school health programs and, on specific campuses, supports the campus-level LPN with the coordination of the integrated health program
• Demonstrates appropriate documentation and computer skills

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or related field
• Obtain AN Ohio Provisional School Nurse Certificate through completion of an approved program
• Within 2 years, obtain a Licensed School Nurse Certificate
• Effective communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team

Preferred

• At least 5 years of successful experience as a nurse
• Successful experience as a public health or school nurse in an urban setting

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with a school environment, and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
• The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal school environment.
• Local travel may be required for training/meetings.

Note: The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility.