Job Description

Options available for:
Temp through rest of the school year - full-time or part-time considered


Permanent position

School Schedule - Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00 - Students' day 9:00-3:00 Contact for more information

Job Title:

School Nurse

Department:

Special Education

Education Level and Certification:

Graduate of an accredited Registered Nursing Program. Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred. Must possess an unrestricted license to practice nursing in the State of Nebraska at all times during employment. Must be certified in Basic Life Support or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Previous experience in the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program is preferred.

Reports To:

Director of Special Education or designee.

Terms of Employment:

Contract of 185-195 days

Performance Responsibilities and Job Tasks

The School Nurse is responsible for performing within the scope of that definition, which include the following responsibilities and job tasks:

Promote and protect the optimal health status of students. Provide health assessments: Obtain health histories. Screen and evaluate findings of deficit in vision, hearing, scoliosis, growth, etc. Make observations for the development and health patterns in making nursing assessments. Identify abnormal health findings. Develop and implement student health plans, including individual student health plans and asthma, anaphylaxis and diabetes self-management plans: Interpret the health status of students to parents and school personnel. Initiate referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow-through. Provide ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies. Utilize existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students. Maintain, evaluate and interpret cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students. Plan and implement school health management protocols. Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases. Responsible for ensuring appropriate exclusion from and re-entry into school in accordance with State health guidelines and Board policy and for reporting communicable diseases as required by law. Implement precautions for bloodborne pathogens and other infectious diseases. Oversee the Head Start LPN and the needs of the Head Start program when a RN is required during the year to do required screenings or IEPs. Provide health education and anticipatory guidance: Provide direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health. Participate in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health. Counsel with students concerning health problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse in order to facilitate responsible decision-making practices. Serve as a resource person to staff members in health instruction. Conduct medication administration training and assessment to permit other employees to administer medication to students. Coordinate school and community health activities and serve as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community. Participate in the development of IEPs and 504 assessments and plans for students with disabilities who need school health services as a related service. Monitor security and safe administration of medications. Complete, or oversee the completion of, all health-related reports and forms required by the Nebraska Department of Education and other governmental agencies and ensure that such reports and forms are submitted on or before the due date.

Required Knowledge

The School Nurse is to possess and effectively utilize knowledge in the following areas:

Medicine and Dentistry -- Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

Working Conditions

Inside offices and classrooms. Exposure to diseases or infections.

FLSA Status:

Exempt under the professional exemption if the School Nurse is an RN. Professional exemption: The employee has a primary duty of performing work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study or has a primary duty of teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and is employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher.

At-Will Position.

This position is an "at-will" position and may be terminated, with or without cause, at any time in the sole discretion of the ESU 13 Administrator or ESU 13 Administrator's designee.

It is the policy of ESU 13 to not discriminate on the basis of sex, disability, race, color, religion, veteran status, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, or other protected status in its educational programs, admission policies, employment policies or other administered programs. Persons requiring accommodations to apply and/or be considered for positions are asked to make their request to the ESU 13 Administrator.