Location:CENTRAL OFFICE TYNES BLDG

Job Category:School Support Staff

Schedule:

Salary:$0.00 - $0.00

Licensed Position: YES Full Time: YES

 

SCHOOL NURSE JOB DESCRIPTION 

 

1.2.1 DEFINITION 

 

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the wellbeing, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety, including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning. (NASN, 2010) www.nasn.org 

 

1.2.2 NATURE OF THE WORK

 

 — Provide preventive health services to facilitate the student’s optimal physical, mental, 

 

     emotional, and social growth and development. 

 

— Identify problems and disabilities and provide such services as case examination, health 

 

     education, referral, and care in order to help prevent serious health problems which would 

 

     later be more difficult and costly to address.

 

— Support the educational process by working to assure the health of the students. 

 

— Follow standard nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, 

 

     implementation, and evaluation, in all cases. 

 

Examples of Work 

 

The following examples are intended as illustrations of various types of work performed in 

 

positions allocated to this classification. No attempt is made to be exhaustive. Related, 

 

similar or logical duties are performed as may be assigned or self-determined. 

 

— Promote and protect the optimal health status of school-age students. 

 

— Provide health assessments. 

 

— Obtain health histories. 

 

— Screen and evaluate findings of deficiencies in vision, hearing, scoliosis, growth, etc. 

 

— Observe students for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment. 

 

— Identify abnormal health findings. 

 

— Develop and implement a health plan. 

 

— Interpret the health status of students to parents/guardians and school personnel. 

 

— Initiate referrals to parents/guardians, school personnel or community health resources for 

 

     intervention, remediation, and follow-through. 

 

— Provide ongoing health counseling with students, parents/guardians, 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. 

 

— Participate in home visits to assess the family’s needs as related to the student’s health. 

 

— Develop procedures for and execute emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses 

 

    and in disaster preparedness and response. 

 

— Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases. 

 

— Provide health education. 

 

— Provide direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in 

 

     making decisions on health and on 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 students concerning problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, 

 

     and substance abuse in order to facilitate responsible decision-making practices. 

 

— Serve as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction. 

 

— Coordinate school and community health activities and serve as a liaison health professional     

 

     between the home, school, and community. School Nursing Practices 8 

 

— Act as a resource person in promoting health careers. 

 

— Engage in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for 

 

     school health programs and school nursing practices. 

 

— Provide consultation in the formation of health policies, goals, and objectives for the school 

 

     district. 

 

— Participate in Individual Education Plan development (where applicable). 

 

1.2.3 REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

 

— Qualified to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Mississippi (or a compact state) 

 

     and holds an unrestricted license. 

 

— Certified in CPR or BLS (or will obtain in the first 12 months of hire). 

 

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS 

 

— B.S.N. or Registered Nurse with a bachelor’s degree in a related discipline. 

 

— Minimum of three (3) year’s experience in nursing profession, 

 

— National Certified School Health Nurse. 

 

KNOWLEDGE BASE 

 

— Principles and practices underlying professional nursing. 

 

— Principles and practices underlying the special field of school health. 

 

— Current trends in nursing and of literature in the field of school health.

 

— Organization and administration of other cooperating agencies. 

 

— State and local laws relating to health and social issues. 

 

ABILITIES 

 

— Participate cooperatively in a program of school nursing. 

 

— Exercise professional judgment in making decisions. 

 

— Utilize appropriate communication techniques with students and school personnel. 

 

— Demonstrate a genuine interest in the student population and its health needs.