School Nurse

Summary of Position: Provide essential healthcare services to students, including direct care, emergency assistance, medication administration, and health education, to foster a climate of health and well-being within the school setting. Work independently with minimal supervision, applying intermediate-level knowledge to ensure student safety and academic readiness, while also supporting staff in promoting a healthy school environment.

Description of Duties: 

• Provide direct care to students, including administering medications, giving intramuscular injections,

performing respiratory assessments and assisting with emergency needs.

• Monitor and assess student health on a regular basis to differentiate between those who can remain in

school and those who need to be excluded due to illness.

• Maintain accurate health records.

• Conduct regular health screenings such as vision and hearing tests; identify issues and communicate with

parents, guardians, school personnel, physicians, clinics, and other agencies as necessary.

• Collaborate with parents, teachers, administrators as well as healthcare providers and community resources

to promote student health and create a safe school environment.

• Serve as a resource for health-related issues, providing guidance and support.

• Provide health education to students, staff members, parents, and guardians on topics such as hand

hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, and other preventive practices.

• Perform mandatory reporting duties to ensure compliance with all relevant local, state, and federal laws and

regulations.

• Identify problems and resolve moderately complex issues related to healthcare matters.

• Providing health advice to school educational teams, such as the Committee on Special Education and the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) team

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills Qualifications: 

• Intermediate nursing knowledge, including infection control, medication administration, understanding of body functions and health assessment procedures.

• Knowledge of public health management protocols.

• Knowledge of child development and educational principles and approaches pertinent to children with various

disabilities and learning needs.

• Knowledge of educational approaches for planning and implementation of intervention programs for children

and families.

• Knowledge of DPA policies and procedures.

• Ability to perform clinical tasks professionally.

•Ability to identify symptoms of diseases and chronic medical problems.

• Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to communicate with those with

sight, hearing, and speech impairments.

• Good computer skills, and the ability to use all relevant software.

• Ability to build productive internal and external working relationships and to resolve mutual problems by

collaborating on procedures or transactions.

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

• Ability to provide standard professional advice and create initial reports/analysis for review by experienced

team professionals.

• The ability to assist students with toileting, feeding, transference from one seat to another seat or location.

• The ability to remove students’ clothing, diaper students, and clean students.

• Occasionally required to move equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.

• Occasionally required to maneuver and assist people weighing from 25 pounds to more than 100 pounds.

• Occasionally exposed to hazardous fluids.

• Occasionally exposed to the risk of needlesticks and exposure to communicable diseases.

 Minimum Qualifications:

Benefits