Nurse

It is the mission of the Green Bay Public School District to educate all students to be college, career, and community ready. This position is responsible for carrying out the school district's health program, as defined by Wisconsin state statues, administrative rules, district policies, and consistent with the Wisconsin Nurse Practice Act. The goals of the position are to maintain and/or improve the health status of students thus enabling them to benefit from their educational experiences, and to promote optimum health status and lifestyles for all students through the joint efforts of the home, school and community.

• Follows the Core Values of the Green Bay Area Public School District as driver of our words and actions.
• Excellence: Students and educators analyze, pursue learning, research, think creatively and work independently and/or collaborateatively while applying their knowledge, abilities and skills with depth and critical thinking to both familiar and unfamiliar situations.
• Engagement: Active and enthusiastic involvement in and out of the classroom.
• Equity: Systems and procedures we use to place students into nurturing and rigorous settings where students’ cultural approaches are honored and students are empowered to fully use their capacities. Equity enhances the quality and accessibility of opportunities.
• Integrity: Demonstrating fairness in judgment and action.
• Responsibility: Fulfilling obligations in a dependable manner and accepting consequences.
• Promotes efforts on diversity, establishes best practices and utilizes skills to remove barriers for students of diverse backgrounds.
• Creates a favorable professional impact on students, parents, community, and other employees.
• Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.
• Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.
• Follows safe practices and adheres to safety standards.
• Applies appropriate nursing theory as the basis for decision making in the school setting.
• Establishes and maintains a coordinated school health program following the guidelines set forth in Wisconsin state statutes, regulations, and school district policy.
• Consults with school administrators and medical director(s) to establish, review, and revise policy and procedures and directives for a comprehensive school health program.
• Determines the delegation of health care procedures to paraprofessionals, the extent of their orientation, and amount and type of ongoing monitoring and supervision that will be needed to comply with state Nurse Practice Act and other legal considerations.
• Arranges in-service program for school personnel, for first aid, emergency care procedures, current health issues, communicable disease prevention, and universal precautions.
• Promotes good safety practices, both within and outside of school buildings.
• Establishes processes to identify students at risk for physical problems and communicates health needs to other school personnel; serves as a member of interdisciplinary teaming providing support services to students.
• Monitors and maintains school health records including 504 Plans for appropriate students.
• Prepares reports as required by the District, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and Wisconsin Division of Health.
• Uses data collected to plan and evaluate the school health program.
• Involves students in maintaining a healthful school environment.
• Collaborates with local and state organizations to implement mandated health programs.
• Develops individualized health plans for students using the nursing process.
• Collects information about the health and developmental status of the student in a systematic and continuous manner, including health and social histories; screening results; physical assessment; emotional status; performance level, and health goals.
• Collects data from student, family, significant others, school personnel, and health care professionals.
• Uses data collected about the health and educational status of the student to determine a nursing diagnosis:
• Coordinates efforts with those of other providers and school personnel to decrease duplication of care.
• Identifies relationship between health status and the student’s ability to learn.
• Participates in consultation team and IEP team meetings.
• Develops a nursing care plan with specific goals and interventions, delineating school nursing actions unique to student needs.
• Intervenes as guided by the nursing care plan to implement nursing actions that promote, maintain, or restore health; prevent illness; and affect rehabilitation.
• Assesses student response to nursing actions in order to revise the data base, nursing diagnoses, and nursing care plan, and to determine progress made toward goal achievement.
• Documents diagnoses, plans, interventions, and results on the student health record.
• Monitors and/or provides medically prescribed interventions to students.
• Supervises and/or provides acute care of students and staff.
• Collaborates with other professionals in…