RN-School Nurse - Palmyra Eagle Area School District

Location

Fort Healthcare, 611 Sherman Avenue E, Fort Atkinson, WI 53538, USA.

40 hours per bi‑weekly pay period, Part time, Day shift.

The school nurse is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services to maintain and/or improve the health status of students and/or staff enabling them to fully benefit from the educational experience. The school nurse performs a critical role within school health services by addressing chronic and/or acute health problems experienced by students and staff and ensures that all health services comply with Federal and State Laws and Standards.

The school nurse provides assistance and care to sick and injured students and staff, maintains health and medical documentation for the school, performs medical procedures as necessary, and reviews content and material for health education, health promotion, and wellness. This role includes providing preventive and screening services, health education, assistance with policy and decision‑making as it relates to health, and immunization against preventable diseases.

The school nurse provides staff education and training for responding to emergency situations, first aid, CPR, AED use, blood borne pathogens, communicable disease, medication administration and student specific issues. In addition, School Nurse may provide skilled nursing interventions for acute and chronic illness, injuries, emergencies, communicable diseases, obesity, substance use, adolescent pregnancy, mental health, dental disease, nutrition, and sexually transmitted infections.

The school nurse may delegate some of the essential duties to a health aid or other trained school staff as appropriate.

• Administration of School Health Program: The school nurse addresses system‑wide health services issues that affect the entire school population. The school nurse must be competent to function independently as they are often the only licensed health care provider in a district. Coordinate and participate in the establishment, review, and implementation of school health services, emergency health, and crisis plan policies and procedures in adherence to legal and regulatory requirements and ethical standards of nursing practice.
  
  Develops and reviews school nurse budget for the district's School Health Services. Bills third‑party payers for services that qualify.
• Care Provider: The school nurse provides assistance and addresses the health care needs of sick and injured students and staff. Develop a process to identify students with known chronic illness and special health needs. Create a comprehensive Individualized Health Plans (IHP) and develop Emergency Action Plans (EAP) as appropriate. Invasive procedure‑delegation training and follow‑up; instruct school personnel how to manage students with chronic illness.
• Community Collaborator and Advocate: The school nurse functions as the liaison between the school and local health service agencies and medical providers. Interpret health mandates, recommendations, and trends and share as appropriate. Collaborate with other student services personnel to prevent health problems from becoming reasons for educational failure. Reports immunization data to county health agency.
• Educator and Health Counseling: The school nurse provides education and health counseling to school staff, students, and families to promote optimum growth and development. The nurse provides staff education and training for responding to emergency situations, first aid, CPR, AED use, blood borne pathogens, communicable disease, and student specific issues. Develop and conduct in‑service training for school personnel on health issues. Provide consultant service to classroom teachers in planning content, materials, and activities related to health instruction.
  
  Provide classroom health instruction when appropriate. Assist teachers upon request, and if schedule permits, with the instruction of certain health units. Development and training of staff that provides health services, including the administration of medication to students. Coordinate the establishment of guidelines, procedures,…