School Registered Nurse - Home Health

School Nurse
This is a professional public health nursing position responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services. County Schools nurses coordinate the student and school health for a school or schools and provide supportive care, direction to staff and students, consult with physicians, and maintain records and school health processes. Work is performed under regular supervision of the Lead Nurse. The professional school nurse is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services within the context of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model. The school nurse serves in the roles of program manager/coordinator, case manager/direct care provider, collaborator/advocate, educator and counselor for Craven County Schools in assigned schools.
School health in Craven County Schools is a public health function in service to the greater Craven County community.
A minimum of three (3) years RN nursing experience dealing with young children and adolescents (ages 5 – 18) and/or public health nursing experience.
A registered nurse actively working toward a BSN degree (to be completed within 3 years of hire date) may be considered.
Registered nurse, currently licensed to practice in North Carolina
National school nurse certification must be completed within 3 years of hire date. In accordance with the National Board for the Certification of School Nurses, the nurse sitting for the exam is required to have a minimum of 1000 hours of school nursing experience.
CPR, AED, First Aid Instructor Certification (or is able and does obtain within a year of employment)
Assist Public Health partners during emergent events such as outbreaks of communicable disease or severe weather such as hurricanes.
Collaborate with students, parents, and healthcare providers to establish plans of care (POCs)
Conduct health screenings
Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
Maximize the quantity of in-class, on task time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism,
Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors
The complex role of the school nurse demands, but is not limited to, an understanding and knowledge of:

Applicable laws, regulations and standards pertaining to school nursing practice (HIPAA, NC Nurse Practice Act, Standards of School Nursing Practice and the Ten Components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model)
Building student, staff and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning
Case finding, case management and health advocacy
Community, including community as a system and aggregates as clients
Contemporary health and psychosocial issues that influence children, families and the community
Development, management and evaluation of school health programs
Environmental health within the school community
Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) law and its application to the work of the school nurse
Health care delivery systems and the concept of the primary health care home.
Health counseling, mental health and crisis intervention
Leadership, networking and collaboration
Pediatric/adolescent Nursing
Program management, including personnel supervision
Public Health/ Community Health Nursing
School as a non-traditional health care setting
School as a Public Health care setting
School Health law
Various electronic applications such as Power School, Google Docs, Word, Excel
Collect data to direct evidence-based practice
Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in practice settings to meet student, school and community needs.
Identify health related barriers to learning (i.e., at risk behaviors, financial, cultural, economical, etc.)
Make independent and timely nursing decisions and accurately triage
Record accurately services rendered and interpret and explain records, reports, activities, health care plans, accommodations and medical interventions
Professional Nursing Standards
The school nurse will demonstrate the following professional standards in the execution of their work:
Standards of Care

Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the client's health or situation.
Nursing Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data to determine the nursing diagnosis or issues that need to be addressed.
Planning: Implementation: Implements the identified plan through coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion and consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of others and effect change.
Standards of Professional Performance

Quality of Practice: Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice.
Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice.
Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice on the planning and delivery of school nursing services.
Program Management*: Manages school health services for assigned schools.
*Exceptional Children's nurses are not responsible for program management, but may assist the "whole school" nurse in the process.
At a minimum, the school nurse may be expected to:

Attend the New School Nurse Orientation and follow up session (new school nurses)
Collect data for various reports including the Annual Health Assessment and Immunization Report, PBNC Mid-Year and EOY Reports, the NC DHHS School Health Nursing Survey and Program Summary (End of Year of Report)
Exceptional Children's nurses typically assume responsibility for only one student.
work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts and observing general surroundings and activities; work frequently requires exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment, occasionally requires