School Nurse
Company: Falk School
Location: New York
Posted on: August 7, 2022
Job Description:
Hourly rate: $29.23
Hours: 7:35 AM - 2:35 PM
10-month position, summer employment optional
General Responsibilities:
The School Nurse is responsible for the health and welfare of the
students and staff during their attendance at school and serves as
a liaison to parents, faculty, and students on health and wellness
issues.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Establish, review, revise and recommend policy and procedures
for a comprehensive school health program, including emergency and
first aid procedures, medication administration protocol, safety
measures, student and staff health services, health
education
- Collect and interpret data of each student including growth,
developmental and health history
- Perform vision, hearing, height/weight, emotional, nutritional
and immunization status and physical assessments
- Make nursing diagnosis for each student based on health and
educational status
- Determine the impact of health needs on educational
programming
- Identify the priority of care and develop nursing care plans as
needed
- Collaborate with students, their families, health care
providers, and school personnel
- Identify an interdisciplinary approach to care including,
staffings, meetings with the classroom teacher and parent,
Committee on Special Education meetings as needed, informal staff
consultations
- Indicate which student needs will be the primary responsibility
of the nurse and which will be referred.
- Coordinate and implement consultations with developmental
specialist and home-school doctor
- Identify the relationship between health status and the
student's ability to learn
- Intervene to implement nursing actions that promote, maintain
or restore health, or prevent illness
- Contact parents with referrals based on, annual physical
assessments, vision and hearing screening, acute health problems
and injuries
- Educate families and students on their current health status
and the impact on learning, roles of health care and the education
process
- Structure each student encounter to provide a learning
opportunity about health, self-care to assist in the development of
decision-making skills to attain optimal wellness
- Inform school personnel about the adaptation of program,
intervention or special environment required by students to meet
their individual needs
- Provide health counseling and refers to appropriate
professionals when indicated
- Administer prescribed medication to all students as needed and
provides a written list of which students receive medication and
time of administration
- Administer first aid and tends to acutely ill students and
faculty
- Identify and teach basic principles of students for health
education individually and in groups
- Educate and counsel school personnel, students and families in
health-related matters
- Provide in-service programs for school personnel on emergency
care procedures, medications monitoring, abuse and neglect
reporting Provide and interpret special health program information
with relevance to the classroom setting
- Maintain health records on each student
- Participate in Individualized Education Plan and Behavior
Implementation Plan conferences as needed
- Make referrals to approach agencies to meet the health needs of
students and their families
- Participate in educational programs for school health
professionals when appropriate
- Collaborate with other agencies to ensure continuity of
services and care
- Report child abuse/neglect to appropriate as a mandated
reporter to Albany registry, contacts family members when
appropriate
- Collaborate with specialists regarding the comparison of other
school health programs and the implementation of innovative
services
- Consult with fellow school nurses, locally and statewide,
regarding new health programs and new approaches to existing
programs
- Maintain and interprets up-to-date resource materials regarding
medicines, disease entities, injuries, developmental disabilities,
growth and development, and treatments
- Attend conferences, workshops and educational programs relevant
to pediatric health.
- All other duties as assigned
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Valid New York State Registered Nursing license
- Must be able to respond quickly to emergency situations in the
school
- Understand complex principles and techniques to make an
independent judgment
- Experience with emotionally disturbed and/or learning disabled
students preferred
- Complete Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training and monitor
student and staff health during interventions
- Knowledge of school health programs such as vision, hearing
screening, immunization requirements
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working
relationships
- Regular and dependable level of attendance
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions
- Operate a computer to perform work
- Maintain records and prepare reports
- Valid driver license
Physical Requirements
- Standing, walking, climbing, stooping, kneeling, occasional
lifting and/or moving more than 25 pounds
- Most work is indoors except when treating students or staff
members outdoors on School grounds
- Physical activity requiring administering CPR/rescue breathing;
operating an AED in the event of an emergency
- Physical activity requiring routine walking, standing, bending,
and carrying of items
- Moderate physical activity with the ability to initiate or
participate in physical interventions when necessary
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner
discriminate against employees or applicants because they have
inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of
another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access
to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as
a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of
other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise
have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is
(a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance
of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an
investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the
contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR
60-1.35(c)
Keywords: Falk School, New York , School Nurse, Healthcare , New York, New York
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