Itinerant School Nurse

Berkeley County Schools (WV) Tomahawk Intermediate
- Hedgesville, West Virginia Open in Google Maps

Berkeley County Schools (WV) Tomahawk Intermediate
- Hedgesville, West Virginia Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in Berkeley County Schools

Job : 5942155
Final date to receive applications: Oct 12, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Posted: Sep 28, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

SCHOOL NURSE

POSITION: Itinerant School Nurse

PRIMARY

LOCATION: School Nurses will provide health care support at additional school locations as needed for required health services of students.

QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelors Degree in nursing, RN license, West Virginia School Nurse Certification, 2 years nursing experience preferred.

EMPLOYMENT

TERM: 200 Days

ROLE: School nurses strengthen and facilitate the educational process by improving and protecting the health status of children and by identification and assistance in the removal or modification of health-related barriers to the learning process for individual children. The major focus of school nursing services is the prevention of illness and disability and the early detection and correction of health problems while maintaining strict confidentiality.

The school nurse may provide direct or indirect medical services to students and oversee others trained to do so. The school nurse is responsible for upgrading and maintaining professional skills.

• Promotes and protects the optimal health status of children.
• Provides health assessments.
• Obtains a health and developmental history, as needed.
• Screens and evaluates some health issues such as vision.
• Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment and nursing diagnosis.
• Identifies deviant health findings and makes appropriate referrals.
• Develops and implements a health plan, as needed.
• Interprets the health status of pupils to parents and school personnel.
• Initiates referrals to parents, school personnel and community health resources for intervention, remediation, and follow through.
• Provides on-going health counseling with pupils, parents, school personnel, and health agencies.
• Recommends and helps to implement modification of school programs to meet students’ health needs.
• Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students

• Maintains, evaluates, and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.
• Participates as the health team specialist on the child education evaluation team to develop the Individual Education Plan (IEP), as needed.
• Plans and implements school health management protocols for the child with special health needs, including the administration of medication.
• Participates in home visits to assess the family’s needs as related to the child’s health.
• Develops procedures and provides for crisis intervention for acute illness, injury, and emotional disturbances.
• Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases through preventive immunization programs, early detection, surveillance, and reporting of contagious diseases.
• Recommends provisions for a school environment conducive to learning.
• Provides health education which may include:
• Teach parenting skills as they relate to child development and health needs of children
• Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health
• Participates 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
• Counsels with students concerning problems such as…