School Nurse

School Nurse Richmond County Schools Richmond Senior High - Rockingham, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in North Carolina School Jobs , and Richmond County School District

Starting Date: Immediately

POSITION: S
CHOOL NURSE

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 10-month

• The school nurse is employed by Richmond County Schools.
• The school health program is within Student Support Services.
• The school nurse will serve elementary, middle and/or high schools.
• The position is full-time with benefits.
• The salary range is determined by the North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction.

• 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 Richmond County Schools in assigned schools.

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

• Community, including 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
• Development, management, and evaluation of school health programs
• 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.)

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

• Maximize the quantity of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health-related absenteeism,
• Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
• Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
• Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors
• Other duties as necessary and assigned

The school nurse will provide:

• Assessment:
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