Nurse - Concord Junior High School

Position Description

Position Title: Nurse
School/Department: Designated School
Supervisor: Health Services Coordinator and Principal
Terms of Employment: Per Classified Conditions of Employment

POSITION PURPOSE

Perform professional nursing duties to prevent the spread of illness and disease, promote the wellbeing and safety of students and staff, and to provide a range of health services enabling students to more fully utilize their educational opportunities to enhance their academic success.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Participates in developing, implementing, and evaluating school health program goals, objectives and procedures in cooperation with school personnel and community resources.
• Participates in developing strategies, as needed, to eliminate or minimize health problems of students that may interfere with learning.
• Participates in identifying and reporting environmental health and safety hazards (current and potential for students and staff).
• Maintains daily, monthly, and yearly statistical information regarding health status of students and staff and utilization of school health services programs.
• Supervises paraprofessionals assigned health services duties in individual buildings.
• Affords assistance in training and education of paraprofessionals in proper techniques for medical treatments or procedures.
• Identifies health problems of students through health assessment, health histories, review of health records, and screening programs.
• Implements all vision and scoliosis screening programs mandates by Indiana law, plus vision screening of all 5th graders and new students, and scoliosis screening of all 6th and 8th graders.
• Communicates current health problems, needs, and concerns of students to their parents and appropriate school staff.
• Develops individualized health plans with specific goals, objectives, and interventions, based on student health needs, as indicated.
• (May be informal plans, outlined in student’s individual health folder)
• Affords assistance in identification of students with disabilities, interpreting health factors pertinent to the student’s disability; and develops, implements, and evaluates the health component of the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP).
• Develops and maintains a system for providing first aid and emergency care.
• Administers medications and treatments to students per physician’s order and parent authorization.
• Provides health counseling to students to assist them in making decisions regarding their health and health behaviors.
• Affords assistance to students and parents in identifying and utilizing available and appropriate community health resources.
• Facilitates the attainment of students’ health needs by providing support to students and their families.
• Provides educational opportunities for students to assist them in developing self-care skills to deal with health problems.
• Provides consultation and assistance to teachers in their planning, implementation, and evaluations of health education units.
• Serves on Student Assistance team to assist in planning and implementing strategies developed to aid students and their families.
• Provides in-service education opportunities for school staff on health-related issues.
• Collaborates with community agencies, health professionals, and school staff to identify the health needs, current and potential, of children and youth to facilitate school and community planning and intervention.
• Critiques and utilizes current research in school, child, and family health and participates in health and educational research as appropriate.
• Affords responsibility for personal professional development.

Qualifications

• Appropriate certification as required by the Indiana Department of Education.
• Licensed registered nurse.
• Ability to prepare written reports and correspondence.
• Ability to communicate effectively with groups of students and parents.
• Skills in human relations.
• Ability to plan and organize; good work habits.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, teachers, and school staff.
• Other qualifications that the School Board may require.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to ten (10) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• There are no environmental hazards indicated for this position.

TERMS

• Length of year and salary to be determined by the School Board.

EVALUATION

• Evaluation of performance on this job will be in accordance with the provisions in the policy handbook.

JOB CODE

• Professional