Nurse (For Campus or Health Services)

About the role

Provide necessary health-related services to enhance students' fullest potential for learning, growing, and developing. Provide health education and preventive health practices for students to promote, maintain, and restore health.

Responsibilities

• Identify health conditions/concerns that interfere with learning through health screenings and physical assessments; develop and implement individual health care plans as required.
• Implement Texas regulations and laws regarding immunizations, child abuse, and mandatory health screenings, including but not limited to vision, hearing, and scoliosis.
• Provide parents/guardians appropriate assistance and information needed for follow-up referral activities relevant to their child's health needs.
• Review student health status for placement in special programs and serve on Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) committees when requested.
• Maintain confidentiality concerning student/employee physical and mental health conditions or concerns. Interpret student health problems to personnel who have a need to know through appropriate protocols of confidentiality.
• Provide emergency nursing service for ill or injured students/employees on the school campus or at school-sponsored activities. Request emergency medical services (EMS) as necessary.
• Anticipate health clinic supplies and equipment to maintain a continuous, functional program. Provide nursing services such as administering medication, peritoneal dialysis, catheterization, tube feedings, and suctioning as directed by physician orders and/or city/state health regulations.
• Develop and maintain a health services program directed toward the control of communicable diseases. Render nursing services as needed for individual students and employees.
• Counsel students/employees with health conditions/concerns and provide appropriate follow-up when needed. Serve as a health education resource and consultant to staff, students, and parents.
• Administer medication, treatments, and related professional services according to district, local, state, and federal requirements.
• Assist in identification of safety and health hazards on the school campus. Serve as an accident location interviewer if designated by the principal.
• Prepare and maintain complete and accurate records as required by administrative regulations, district policy, and state and federal agencies.
• Assume responsibility for continuing education and submit evidence to the department of Health Services of registered nurse license renewal as well as screening certifications and Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation/Automated External Defibrillator (CPR/AED) certification on or before expiration date of renewal.
• Comply with all district and campus policies and procedures.
• Provide on-call assistance to other schools as needed and take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Attendance at the work site is required to meet essential functions of the job.
• Participate in professional development activities as required by the district.
• Follow established safety procedures and techniques to perform job duties; support district/department goals.
• Maintain a professional code of ethics and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse with the Texas State Board of Nurse Examiners.
• Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation/Automated External Defibrillator (CPR/AED) certification.
• Vision, hearing, and spinal screening certifications must be acquired within 90 days of employment.
• One (1) year Registered Nurse experience OR five (5) years Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) experience.

Mental & Physical Demands

• Maintain emotional control under stress; ability to work with frequent interruptions.
• Frequent standing, walking, lifting/lowering, carrying, bending, crouching, reaching above/below, pushing and/or pulling weights in excess of 45 pounds (actual force varies dependent upon the grade/size of the person).
• Repetitive hand-wrist and elbow motion.
• Exposure to bacteria and communicable diseases.
• Valid Texas/New Mexico driver's license; subject to the district's drug and alcohol screening policy and regulation; must be insurable by the district's auto liability insurance carrier.

Pay

Teacher Salary Schedule (see Ysleta ISD's Compensation Plan).