School Nurse

QUALIFICATIONS:
1.Valid driver's license
2.Bachelor's degree-prepared Registered Nurse (RN)
3.Additional education leading to an Ohio Department of Education and Workforce pupil services license, specifically the one-year temporary school nurse license, five-year professional school nurse license or school nurse wellness coordinator endorsement.
4.Good health, high moral character and good attendance record.

General Description:
The school nurse provides health services in the school setting. Their goal is to treat student injuries or illnesses and advise students, their parents/guardians and staff on health issues. Apart from injuries and sudden ailments, the school nurse may also support students with chronic illnesses and disabilities - for example, by administering medication to them. The school nurse also promotes health-related habits and ensures compliance with national and local health policies for the school district.

Essential Functions:
1.Use the Nursing Process, a critical thinking model, to determine a course of nursing care.
2.The school nurse conducts an assessment; develops a nursing diagnosis; provides outcomes identification; and plans and implements evidence-based coordination of care, health teaching, health promotion, evaluation of care and outcomes.
3.Impact the health of students, schools, families and communities in a number of ways.
4.Address health promotion and disease prevention for both individual and population health.
5.Promote biopsychosocial health and well-being of school-aged children and intervene with health problems with a core focus of keeping students healthy and in school, which is essential for academic success.
6.Collaborate with public health partners for screenings, referrals, follow up and communicable disease surveillance.
7.Participate in health prevention activities, such as immunization, obesity prevention, substance abuse assessment, tobacco control, asthma education, and promoting health and safety.
8.Understand and educate others, including staff, students and families, about normal development.
9.Provide care provision or coordination, including care for chronic diseases like diabetes, asthma, epilepsy and allergies; and contribute to Individual Assessment Team (IAT), 504 plan and individualized education program (IEP) processes.
10.Provide training of other school staff on appropriate health and safety procedures related to health, including emergency preparedness.
11.Provide care of students and staff with acute illnesses or injuries by rendering first aid and training for school staff.
12.Practice in a manner that is ethical and culturally congruent, with effective communication in all areas of practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
13.Act in a leadership role in the professional practice setting and collaborate with key stakeholders, including professional practice evaluation (of self and others).
14.Provide program management, directing the health services program within the school and community.
15.Maintain an interdisciplinary practice, including actively collaborating with educators, physicians and other health care team members to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:
1.Serves as a role model for students on how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
2.Help instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
3.Conducts other duties assigned by the Transportation Supervisor or Superintendent.

Additional Working Conditions:
1.Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids and tissue.
2.Occasional operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
3.Will be involved in several meetings throughout the school year to discuss operations.

This job description in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the position incumbent. The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the incumbent's supervisor, appointing authority, or designee.