SCHOOL NURSE

Craven County Schools School Nurse Job Description

Position:
School Nurse

Reports to:

Lead Nurse, Principal

Terms of Employment: 10 month (30 hrs. per week)

Pay Range:
Starting at $20.39 per hour for non-certified nurse, $38,500 -$57,200 for NBCSN certification, prorated for position's hours

FLSA Status:
Exempt and Non-exempt

This is a professional public health nursing position responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services. County Schools nurses coordinate the student and school health for a school or schools and provide supportive care, direction to staff and students, consult with physicians, and maintain records and school health processes. Work is performed under regular supervision of the Lead Nurse.

The professional school nurse is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services within the context of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model. The school nurse serves in the roles of program manager/coordinator, case manager/direct care provider, collaborator/advocate, educator and counselor for Craven County Schools in assigned schools.

School health in Craven County Schools is a public health function in service to the greater Craven County community.

• A minimum of three (3) years RN nursing experience dealing with young children and adolescents (ages 5 – 18) and/or public health nursing experience.
• BSN preferred. A registered nurse actively working toward a BSN degree (to be completed within 3 years of hire date) may be considered.

Certification and Licensure Requirements (if applicable):

• Required:
  
  Registered nurse, currently licensed to practice in North Carolina
• National school nurse certification must be completed within 3 years of hire date.
• In accordance with the National Board for the Certification of School Nurses, the nurse sitting for the exam is required to have a minimum of 1000 hours of school nursing experience.
• CPR, AED, First Aid Instructor Certification (or is able and does obtain within a year of employment)

Essential Functions/Typical Tasks

The professional school nursing position within Craven County Schools is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services that:

• Assist Public Health partners during emergent events such as outbreaks of communicable disease or severe weather such as hurricanes.
• Collaborate with students, parents, and healthcare providers to establish plans of care (POCs)
• Conduct health screenings
• Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
• Maximize the quantity of in-class, on task time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism,
• Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors
• Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The complex role of the school nurse demands, but is not limited to, an

understanding and knowledge of:

• Applicable laws, regulations and standards pertaining to school nursing practice (HIPAA, NC Nurse Practice Act, Standards of School Nursing Practice and the Ten Components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model)
• Building student, staff and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning
• Case finding, case management and health advocacy
• Communicable Disease
• Community, including community as a system and aggregates as clients
• Contemporary health and psychosocial issues that influence children, families and the community
• Development, management and evaluation of school health programs
• Environmental health within the school community
• Ethnic and cultural sensitivity and competence
• Family theory, assessment and intervention
• Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) law and its application to the work of the school nurse
• Health care delivery systems and the concept of the primary health care home.
• Health counseling, mental health and crisis intervention
• Leadership, networking and collaboration
• Pediatric/adolescent Nursing
• Program management, including personnel supervision
• Public Health/ Community Health…