School Nurse

Description

Position Overview:

Under general supervision, plans, directs, and evaluates total nursing care and functions in one department. The RN is responsible to assess and monitor medical concerns, provides nursing care to program participants and administers nursing care to ill, injured or disabled program participants.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor and assess program participants' medical concerns.

• Provide routine and emergency nursing care to program participants.

• Complete all required documentation and reports according to program regulations, including program participants' medical reviews and charts.

• Relates effectively with others for continuity of care; maintains satisfactory relations with other departments and units; participates in all phases of education.

• Responsible for orientation, training and management of personnel in the areas of health and safety.

• Identifies problems and guides personnel to appropriate resources.

• Accurately and promptly implements physicians' orders.

• Administers medications skillfully and correctly.

• Participates in safety programs.

• Enforces infection-control policies and procedures.

• Serves as a resource person on health issues.


• Provides staff development on health-related topics for staff and volunteers.


• Keeps supervisor informed of individual needs and problems.

• Assists in reviewing and revising medical policies and procedures.

• Screens and conducts health appraisals for students and staff.


• Review and act on Incident Reports.

• Advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention

• Performs other duties as assigned.

HCA: not just a job opportunity, but an opportunity to make a difference.

Requirements

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Registered nurse (R.N.), valid New York State License

Qualifications and knowledge:

• Knowledge of areas of practice specific to pediatrics, including child development and specific diagnoses.


• Working knowledge of public health problems and procedures for treatment in coordination with other health and social service agencies.


• Maintains a professional approach with confidentiality.

• Maintain acceptable standards of patient care.

• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, organization and active listening skills.
• Excellent organizational & time management skills.

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. Strong collaboration skills.
• Exceptional problem solving skills, including a proactive approach to problem solving and the ability to make quick and independent decisions in response to changing conditions.
• Demonstrates motivation to augment current level of knowledge and practice through participation in continuing education courses.

• Proficient with Internet Explorer; Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Outlook; Microsoft Word; and Windows Operating System.

Physical Demands:

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds force constantly to move objects.
• Regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch and bend,
• Fingering is required regularly for typing and the use of hands in a repetitive motion.
• Regularly required to talk and hear with the ability to exchange and receive detailed information.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data, viewing computer screens.
• Exposure to infectious disease.
• Working conditions of this position do not substantially expose workers to adverse environmental conditions and are typical of an indoor work environment.