Nurse, Public Health Nurse

Nurse at Falcon British Nursery School in Abu Dhabi, AZ, AE.

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

• Training
• Nursing Qualification
• HAAD LICENSE
• Minimum 1 year’s experience
• Advanced life support

• Aware of and willing to promote the school’s health and safety policies and practices.
• Purpose of School nursing
• Facilitate positive student responses to normal development
• Promote health and safety
• Intervene with actual and potential health problems
• Provide case management services
• Collaborate with others to build student and family for adaptation, self management, self advocacy and learning
• Able to lead a team of nurses and support staff.
• Provide training for staff.
• Accuracy in medicine provision and record keeping.
• Able to be prepared for doctors’ visits /prepare for health authority inspections.
• Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Tablet Experience working with student or in a school environment.

Reporting to the deputy/supervisor, principal, HR manager, HAAD.

Provides direct healthcare to student & staff

Provides leadership for the provision of health service

Provides screening and referral for health conditions

Promotes a healthy school environment

Promotes health Leadership role for health policies and programs

Liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers

The role of the school nurse encompasses both health and educational needs.

• Performs comprehensive & systematic health assessment
• Analyzes data to identify health problems
• Develops individualized healthcare plan and refers for further follow up (children with chronic conditions or special needs)
• Manages and updates plan and communicates it to concerned personnel
• Provides ongoing health information to students, parents and school authorities
• Plans, implements and supervises school health screening programs
• Directs immunization program
• Administers medications as per HAAD guidelines
• Documents care & maintains records
• Reports school health data (identifies health issues)

• Development of plans and training staff in emergencies and disasters
• Maintain confidentiality in communication and documentation
• Appropriate delegation of care (initial assessment, training, competency validation, supervision, and evaluation)

• Screening: vision, hearing, posture, body mass index, etc
• Refer in timely manner
• Recognize any deviation from normal growth development and behavior
• Promote healthy school environment

• Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases
• Monitors immunization
• Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school
• Promotes healthy school environment
• Reports communicable diseases
• Assesses the physical environment (playground, indoor air quality, review illness or injury)
• Participates in developing a plan for prevention and management of hazards
• Assesses emotional environment of school (bullying, violence)

• Provides health education to students, parents, teachers & communities
• Assists in development of health education curriculum
• Promotes health in school health councils
• Collaborates with staff, students, parents and other professionals to assess health needs and develop a school health plan
• Prepares statistical reports on health promotion

• Leadership for health policies and programs
• Health expert within school system
• Leader in development and evaluation of school health policies, procedures including Health promotion and protection
• Coordinates school health program School…