Long-Term Substitute School Nurse - Sanford High School (1035)

About the role

The School Nurse at Sanford High School and Regional Technical Center will be responsible for providing comprehensive health care services to students during the specified period.

Responsibilities

• Provides health assessments
• Develops and implements health plans
• Maintains, evaluates, and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual student needs
• Participates on the child educational evaluation team to evaluate the health component of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs)
• Manages care for students with chronic health conditions, including medication administration
• Participates in home visits to assess family needs related to a student’s health; acts as a liaison between school, home, and community
• Develops procedures and provides crisis intervention for acute illness, injury, and emotional disturbances
• Promotes and assists in controlling communicable diseases through preventative immunization programs, early detection, surveillance, and reporting of contagious diseases
• Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison between school, home, and community
• Affords information on health and promotes health careers
• Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices
• Maintains and updates cumulative health records
• Helps develop/review school health policies, procedures, standing orders, and implements the school medication policy and procedures
• Prepares the budget for school health supplies
• Organizes, instructs, and supervises school health volunteers or assistants
• Reports regularly to the principal and superintendent on school health activities as needed
• Prepares statistical reports for the Department of Education and the Department of Health & Human Services as required
• Interprets school health services for school personnel
• Interprets appraisal findings and helps students and parents accept responsibility for diagnosis and treatment
• Encourages parents to maintain current immunization protection as recommended by the Department of Health & Human Services
• Helps school personnel recognize departures from appropriate behavior and growth patterns; helps students and staff adjust student programs when necessary to accommodate health needs of students

Requirements

• RN (Registered Nurse) with a current license from the Maine State Board of Nursing
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred
• Three years of nursing experience, with some school nursing experience preferred
• Evidence of ability to provide health-related educational leadership and administer educational, preventative, and remedial health care programs