Part Time School Nurse

LARAMIE COUNTY SD #2 District - Pine Bluffs, Wyoming

Starting Date: Immediately

Reports To:

Building Principal(s)

SUMMARY

The school nurse serves in a pivotal role that bridges health care and education. Grounded by standards of practice, services provided by the school nurse include leadership, community/public health, care coordination and quality improvement.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for evidence based care of staff and students in accordance with the Wyoming State Board of Nursing and State of Wyoming's policies and regulations.
• Student Services
  • Promotes and protects the optimal health status of children.
  • Participates as the Health team specialist on the child education evaluation team to develop the Individual Education Plan (IEP).
  • Provides health assessments
    • Obtains a health and developmental history.
    • Screens and evaluates findings of deficit in vision, hearing, growth, etc.
  • Develops and implements a health plan
    • 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.
  • Participates in home visits to assess the family’s needs as related to the child’s health.
  • Provides health education
    • 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 health conditions, mental health issues, problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and substance abuse, in order to facilitate responsible decision‑making practices.
    • Serves as a resource person to the teachers and administrators in health instruction.
• Record Keeping
  • Maintains, evaluates, and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs to students.
  • Promotes and maintains confidentiality of student health records per LCSD #2 policy.
  • Responsible for all student immunization records and reporting in compliance with the Wyoming Immunization Department rules and regulations.
• District Planning
  • Plans and implements school health management protocols for the child with special health needs, including the administration of medication.
  • Develops procedures and provides for crisis intervention for acute illness, injury, emotional disturbances and emergencies.
  • Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases through preventative immunization programs, early detection, surveillance, and reporting and follow‑up of contagious diseases of students and staff.
  • Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison between the home, school and community.
  • Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers.
  • Engages in evaluation of school health services.
  • Assists in the formation of health policies, goals, and objectives for the school district.
• Staff Services
  • Provides health counseling for staff.
  • Provides CPR and First Aid classes as requested.
  • Assists in training and educating those delegated by the Principal(s) to assist students with health needs.
  • Maintain and facilitiate Hepatitis B vaccinations for staff…