Substitute School Nurse

Boone Community School District Boone Community School District - Boone, Iowa Open in Google Maps

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Job : 5959267

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Yesterday

District Wide Substitute Nurse Position

The Boone Community School District has made a significant effort to live our motto Expect the Best...Achieve Success
. Boone Community School District is located 10 minutes west of Ames and roughly 1 hour north of the Des Moines Metro Area. Our staff work daily to Value the Uniqueness of All, Give a Fresh Start Each Day, Partner with Families, Develop Positive Character, and Ensure Learning. We have earned a reputation for being an innovative and progressive school district that includes $43+million in building projects completed in the fall of 2024.

This includes aPre-K-1st grade early childhood learning center and a multipurpose education center. The City of Boone is a great place to live, grow and play. Boone is voted #1 Affordable Small Town... Where You'd Actually Want to Live by

As needed nurse within the Boone School District

• Registered Nurse License
• BOEE Statement of Professional Recognition

• Highly developed oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships effectively and professionally with families and students.
• Experience developing and implementing curriculum.
• Physical ability to handle frequent sitting, stooping, bending, pushing, pulling, and moving throughout the room.
• Proven ability to maintain a safe and studious classroom environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement age-appropriate curriculum.
• Ability to collaborate within the school and instructional setting.
• Demonstrated desire to be a life-long learner.

• Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children
• Provides health assessments
• Provides health assessments, observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment, and identifies abnormal health findings
• Develops and implements a student health plan
• Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel
• Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through.
• Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies
• Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students
• Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students
• Plans and implements school health management protocols
• Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses
• Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health
• Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health
• Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction
• Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community
• Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers
• Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices
• Provides consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school district.
• Where applicable, participates in the IEP…