Substitute Nurse

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Implements the individualized health plan (plan of care) as written by the school nurse.
• Provides health care services under the supervision of the school nurse.
• Affords health care services to students.
• Assesses, plans, coordinates and delivers school health services.
• Functions as a member of a multidisciplinary team to plan, deliver and evaluate health care for students.
• Carries out outreach activities, case finding, case management and care coordination.
• Manages health office activities.
• Trains and supervises non-licensed personnel performing health procedures.
• Provides anticipatory guidance and health education activities that emphasize self care, wellness activities, personal health practices, and appropriate use of health resources.
• Provides health counseling and guidance to students and their families.
• Initiates and or coordinates referrals to and/or linkages with health agencies.
• Collaborates with others in the school and surrounding community to improve students' health.
• Works with others to minimize environmental risk factors and promote health and safety within the school setting.
• Assists staff with strategies to support and meet students’ needs and achievement of academic goals.
• Communicates actively and positively with parents and community members.
• Assists in planning and delivering social/emotional/behavioral school-wide programming.
• Maintains appropriate records and protects the confidentiality of data.
• Maintains the Standards of School Nursing Practice and the Iowa Teaching Standards on a consistent basis.
• Reports to work as scheduled on a regular and reliable basis.

Experience

• Previous pediatric nursing, school health nursing, or community health nursing experience highly desirable.

Reasoning Ability

• Solves problems effectively.
• Interprets a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Physical Demands

• Stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle and/or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Talk and hear.
• Squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and forward 0 - 24 inches and on occasion up to 36 inches.
• Grasp items.
• Bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job.
• Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds 0 - 12 feet and occasionally up to 20 feet, such as curriculum materials, desks, chairs, and boxes.
• Push/pull items such as tables and carts.
• Close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus while supervising students and working with computers, written materials, reports, assessment data, etc.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The position requires the commitment of professional working hours that may require the employee to extend beyond a typical 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. workday.
• The employee will frequently work in different areas of the classroom including in/at desks, on or near the floor, standing, in movement while supervising indoor and outdoor activities, etc.
• The employee will usually work in indoor temperatures but will work outdoors when supervising students outside of the classroom.