School Nurse

School Nurse 26-27 School Year

Educational Service Unit 13, ESU 13 Administration 1 - Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Open in Google Maps.

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Job : 5619322

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Mar 31, 2026 6:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

School

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8:00-4:00

Contract Length: 185-195 days

Job Title: School Nurse

Department: Special Education

Education Level and Certification: Graduate of an accredited Registered Nursing Program. Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred. Must possess an unrestricted license to practice nursing in the State of Nebraska at all times during employment. Must be certified in Basic Life Support or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Previous experience in the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program is preferred.

Reports To: Director of Special Education or designee.

Terms of Employment: Contract of 185-195 days.

Performance Responsibilities and Job Tasks:

• Promote and protect the optimal health status of students.
• Provide health assessments.
• Obtain health histories.
• Screen and evaluate findings of deficit in vision, hearing, scoliosis, growth, etc.
• Make observations for the development and health patterns in making nursing assessments.
• Identify abnormal health findings.
• Develop and implement student health plans, including individual student health plans and asthma, anaphylaxis and diabetes self‑management plans.
• Interpret the health status of students to parents and school personnel.
• Initiate referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow‑through.
• Provide ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies.
• Utilize existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
• Maintain, evaluate and interpret cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.
• Plan and implement school health management protocols.
• Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases. Responsible for ensuring appropriate exclusion from and re‑entry into school in accordance with State health guidelines and Board policy and for reporting communicable diseases as required by law. Implement precautions for blood borne pathogens and other infectious diseases.
• Oversee the Head Start LPN and the needs of the Head Start program when an RN is required during the year to do required screenings or IEPs.
• Provide health education and anticipatory guidance:
• Provide direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health.
• Participate in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health.
• Counsel with students concerning health problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse in order to facilitate responsible decision‑making practices.
• Serve as a resource person to staff members in health instruction.
• Conduct medication administration training and assessment to permit other employees to administer medication to students.
• Coordinate school and community health activities and serve as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community.
• Participate in the development of IEPs and 504 assessments and plans for students with disabilities who need school health services as a related service.
• Monitor security and safe administration of medications.
• Complete, or oversee the completion of, all health‑related reports and forms required by the Nebraska Department of Education and other governmental agencies and ensure that such reports and forms are submitted on or before the due date.

Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health‑care measures.

• Inside offices and classrooms.
• Exposure…