- Job title and Classification
- The substitute school nurse is employed by Craven County Schools.
- The school health program is based within the Student Support Services Division.
- The substitute school nurse serves one to two schools, depending on acuity and district needs.
- Positions vary from 35 to 37.5 hours per week.
- Primary Purpose
- The substitute 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 substitute 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.
- The substitute school nurse reports directly to the Lead Nurse.
- Community, including community as a system and aggregates as clients
- Pediatric/Adolescent Nursing
- Public Health/ Community Health Nursing
- Health counseling, mental health and crisis intervention
- Communicable Disease
- Applicable laws, regulations and standards pertaining to school nursing practice
- School Health law
- Special education legislation and services
- Case finding, case management and health advocacy
- Program management, including personnel supervision
- Family theory, assessment and intervention
- Leadership, networking and collaboration
- Ethnic and cultural sensitivity and competence
- Contemporary health and psychosocial issues that influence children, families and the community
- Health care delivery systems and the concept of the primary health care home.
- Various electronic applications such as Power School, Google Docs, Word, Excel
- Building student, staff and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning
- School as a Public Health care setting
- School as a non-traditional health care setting
- Development, management and evaluation of school health programs
- Environmental health within the school community
- Plan, coordinate and supervise the work of others
- Deal tactfully with others and exercise good judgment in appraising situations
- Make independent and timely nursing decisions and accurately triage
- Maintain effective working relationships with students, parents, faculty and staff
- Collect data to direct evidence-based practice
- Record accurately services rendered and interpret and explain records, reports, activities, health care plans, accommodations and medical interventions
- Utilize various electronic and hard copy documentation systems for entering information at the time of service to the student.
- Identify health related barriers to learning (i.e., at risk behaviors, financial, cultural, economical, etc.)
- Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in practice settings to meet student, school and community needs.
- Duties, Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions
- Maximize the quantity of in-class, on task time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism,
- Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
- Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
- Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors
- Assist Public Health partners during emergent events such as outbreaks of communicable disease such as Covid-19. Substitute school nurses may be required to perform activities that support the communicable disease team.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 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.
- Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the client or situation.
- Planning: Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
- 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.
- Evaluation: Evaluates progress towards attainment of outcomes.
- Quality of Practice: Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
- Education: Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice.
- Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
- Collegiality: Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues.
- Collaboration: Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice.
- Ethics: Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice.
- Research: Integrates research findings into practice.
- Resource Utilization: Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of school nursing services.
- Leadership: Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
- Program Management: Manages school health services for assigned schools.
- Exceptional Children's nurses are not responsible for program management,
- Performance and Workload Standards
- 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)
- Assume the responsibility for 1-2 schools, based on acuity levels and district need. Exceptional Children's nurses typically assume responsibility for only one student.
- Job Qualifications
- Required: Registered nurse, currently licensed to practice in North Carolina
- A minimum of 3 years RN nursing experience dealing with young children and adolescents (ages
- BSN preferred.
- National school nurse certification is (optional). 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 and a BSN.
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School Nurse - New Bern, United States - Public School of North Carolina
Description
Craven County SchoolsSubstitute School Nurse
Job Description
Position:
School Nurse
Reports to:
Lead Nurse, Principal
Terms of Employment: 10 month
Pay Grade:
Pay Range:
Starting at $20.39 per hour for non-certified nurse, $38,500 -$57,200 for NBCSN certification, prorated for position's hours
FLSA Status:
Exempt and Non-exempt
The complex role of the school nurse demands, but is not limited to, an
understanding and knowledge of:
The school nurse will provide:
Standards of Care
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily.
I have had a chance to ask questions about this job description and have been given a copy.
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