HERTFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE:  SCHOOL NURSE

Reports to:  Student Services Director

Supervises:  No one

Term of Employment:  10 months

FLSA:  Exempt if Salary  FLSA minimum; Non-exempt if salary  FLSA minimum

Qualifications:

• Possession of a valid TB test and health examination issued by the local County Board of Health or recognized medical authority
• Education/formal training/licensure/certification/experience:
• BSN with current North Carolina RN license minimum of five years nursing experience
• Certification as a School Health Nurse is required within three (3)years of employment
• Current NC driver’s license
• Additional Skills:
• Effective communicator with a wide range of age groups, and ethnic, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds
• Strong physical assessment skills

Essential Job Functions:

1. Uses the nursing process to assess, plan, and evaluate the health care of individual students as well as groups of students in schools
• Identifies children with special health care needs and develops health care plans and emergency action plans
• Monitors kindergarten health assessment and immunization records and facilitates completion
• Participates in coordinated school health teams as appropriate
2. Provides nursing care to school-age children, adolescents, and school staff in the system by:
• Organizing/completing periodic health screenings assuring follow-up, providing care, and referring services
• Implementing an effective medication administration system
• Supervising/assisting with prescribed treatments/procedures
• Providing emergency care for illness/injury
• Providing care for children with chronic illness
3. Uses equipment/supplies correctly
4. Assures the use of appropriate safety and infection control measures
• Assures compliance with communicable disease standards
• Monitors the school environment for health and safety issues
5. Teaches/directs/advises/informs others
• Development of workshops/training activities for school personnel on health-related topics
• Provision of individual explanation(s) to students, parents, and appropriate staff regarding prevention, illness, treatment, etc.
• Creates communications and communication processes for the programs
• Informing family/school staff of community resources
• Supervising school personnel and volunteers assisting with the school health programs
6. Reports/records data
• Documents patient data, plan of care, care rendered and response to care for individual students
• Reports significant data regarding student health status to appropriate individuals
• Provides program reports promptly
• Appropriately reports health and safety issues in the school environment
7. Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor

Physical and Cognitive Requirements:

The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below apply to this job classification within Hertford County Schools. Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

Must be able to:

• prepare, read, and comprehend a variety of job-related forms, reports, spreadsheets, maps, plans, records, documentation, and correspondence in all languages required by the job
• understand and conform to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
• speak to individuals or groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence respond adequately to inquiries or complaints
• write using standard conventions in all languages required by the job
• apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form
• communicate effectively and efficiently in all languages required by the job using whatever communication device or system is required (telephone, Braille)
• use/interpret job-related terminology, mathematical formulas, and functions effectively and efficiently
• deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
• perform under stress, deal with persons acting under stress, and adapt when confronted with emergencies
• be sensitive to cultural differences among individuals and groups of persons
• operate a motor vehicle
• operate/use a variety of automated office machines and other office equipment
• operate/use a variety of printing/graphic arts machines
• operate/use a variety of audiovisual/electronic machines and devices
• operate/use a variety of communication machines/equipment/devices
• operate/use a variety of job-specific machines/equipment