School Nurse

About the Role

The PSOE School Nurse assesses, educates, and intervenes to maximize classroom time, minimize absences due to illness, and support a healthy school environment while respecting the dignity and rights of students regardless of socioeconomic status, personal attributes, or nature of health problems.

Responsibilities

• Maintains compliance with State and Board of Education regulations.
• Implements school programs regarding physical examinations, immunization, and sight and hearing testing.
• Provides first aid, nursing care, intervention, and referrals for ill and injured students.
• Implements Board policy regarding the exclusion and readmission of students with respect to certain infectious and contagious diseases (e.g., Tuberculosis).
• Maintains accurate records and documentation in accordance with state and federal law, and Board of Education policies.
• Assists in developing an individual health care plan (IHP) when needed, including specific goals, nursing diagnosis, and interventions tailored to students’ needs for incorporation into the student’s individualized educational plan (IEP).
• Reports to parents, school district personnel, physicians, and others as needed to meet student health needs.
• Provides health education to students as requested.
• Collaborates with students, parents, school district staff, and community agencies to safeguard continuity of care for students.
• Participates in establishing and maintaining a comprehensive school health program.
• Serves as a member of school teams as the designated health care professional (e.g., Crisis Teams, PPT, Section 504).
• Contributes to nursing and school health through innovations in theory, practice, and participation in research, including narrative and statistical reports.

Requirements

• Indiana registered Nursing License.
• Working knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and regulations affecting school health services.
• Current certification as an RN.
• Annual training and/or professional development required for all PSOE employees.
• Job-specific training identified and scheduled by the School Principal or direct supervisor in partnership with Paramount C-suite.

Preferred Skills

• Previous pediatric and school environment experience.
• Genuine interest in the PSOE student population and its health needs.
• Ability to organize a health office and manage time.
• Proficiency in technology.
• Knowledge of leadership and management principles as they relate to charter schools.
• Knowledge of current community challenges and opportunities relating to the mission of the organization.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
• Manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer.
• Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids.
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone.
• Ability to speak in audible tones so others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone.
• Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height.
• Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
• Contact with children who are ill; capability to perform first aid and CPR.
• Regularly required to talk, hear, or smell.
• Frequently required to sit, walk, run, and use hands to perform examinations or handle tools or controls.
• Ability to see clearly in close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjust focus.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds; occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and perform a 2-person lift over 50 pounds.

The work environment includes standard workplaces but may require completing tasks in various locations within the school campus. The School Nurse works a standard workweek but may also work evenings and weekends.