School Nurse

School Nurse

Job : 5817277

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Jul 06, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

10 month, 8 hours a day

Full time with benefits

Based at Southeast Middle, but serving Walnut Cove, London, and Early College

School Nurse

Student Services Job Description

POSITION: School Nurse

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

The professional school nurse provides management of the comprehensive school health program by assessing, planning/coordinating, implementing, and evaluating school health services in order to maximize the quality of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism, eliminate or minimize health problems that impair learning, and assist students to achieve the highest degree of independent functioning possible.

The complex role of the school nurse demands, but is not limited to, an understanding and knowledge of:

• Community, including the community as a system and aggregates as clients
• Pediatric/adolescent Nursing
• Public Health/community Health Nursing
• Health counseling, mental health, and crisis intervention
• Communicable Disease
• Applicable laws, regulations, and standards pertaining to school nursing practice (NC Nurse Practice Act, Standards of School Nursing Practice, and the Eight Components of a Coordinated School Health Program)
• School Health Law
• Special education legislation and services
• Case finding, case management, and health advocacy
• Program management, including personnel supervision
• Family theory, assessment, and intervention
• Leadership, networking, and collaboration
• Ethnic and cultural sensitivity and competence
• Contemporary health and psychosocial issues that influence children, families, and the community
• Health care delivery systems and the concepts of the primary health care
• Building student, staff, and family capacity for adaptation, self management, self-advocacy, and learning
• School as a non-traditional health care setting
• Environmental health within the school community

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise the work of others
• Deal tactfully with others and exercise good judgment in appraising situations
• Make independent and timely nursing decisions and to triage
• Secure the cooperation and respect of students, faculty, and staff
• Elicit needed information and maintain effective working relationships
• Collect data to direct evidence based practice
• Record accurately services rendered and interpret and explain records, reports, activities, health care plans, accommodations and medical interventions
• Identify health related barriers to learning (i.e., at risk behaviors, financial, cultural, economical, etc.)

• Coordinate and participate in the establishment, review, and implementation of school health/services policies and procedures.
• Ensure consistent implementation of policies/procedures throughout the school system and adherence to legal and regulatory requirements and ethical standards of nursing practice.
• Utilize the nursing process in assessment, planning, and evaluation of the health services component of the coordinated school health program.
• Implementation of communicable disease control in the school, including monitoring, surveillance, and participating in disease prevention and outbreak management with the school.
• Serve as a health care consultant for school personnel, students, and their families.
• Provide professional health leadership to administrators and school staff.
• Development/coordination of quality improvement activities for the school health services component of the school health program.
• Assure the appropriate documentation is maintained for school health services and activities.
• Documentation, compilation, and analysis of data for required reports on school health services.
• Development and training of staff that provides health services, including the administration of medication to students.
• Coordinate the establishment of guidelines, procedures, and training in First Aid/CPR/First Responder Program for schools and staff.
• Participate in the development of the school’s emergency health and crisis plan.
• Recommends corrective action where problems are identified.
• Where applicable, direct, monitor, and evaluate aides/assistants/volunteers assigned to the school health program.
• Develop a system for the identification of students with special health care needs.
• Supports healthy food services programs
• Monitors compliance of school health program with federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies.
• Maintains security and…