Summary of Position
Provide essential healthcare services to students, including direct care, emergency assistance, medication administration, and health education, to foster a climate of health and well-being within the school setting. Work independently with minimal supervision, applying intermediate-level knowledge to ensure student safety and academic readiness, while also supporting staff in promoting a healthy school environment.
Description of Duties
• Provide direct care to students, including administering medications, giving intramuscular injections,
- performing respiratory assessments and assisting with emergency needs.
- Monitor and assess student health on a regular basis to differentiate between those who can remain in
- school and those who need to be excluded due to illness.
- Maintain accurate health records.
- Conduct regular health screenings such as vision and hearing tests; identify issues and communicate with
- parents, guardians, school personnel, physicians, clinics, and other agencies as necessary.
- Collaborate with parents, teachers, administrators as well as healthcare providers and community resources
- to promote student health and create a safe school environment.
- Serve as a resource for health-related issues, providing guidance and support.
- Provide health education to students, staff members, parents, and guardians on topics such as hand
- hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, and other preventive practices.
- Perform mandatory reporting duties to ensure compliance with all relevant local, state, and federal laws and
- regulations.
- Identify problems and resolve moderately complex issues related to healthcare matters.
- Providing health advice to school educational teams, such as the Committee on Special Education and the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) team
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Skills Qualifications
- Intermediate nursing knowledge, including infection control, medication administration, understanding of body functions and health assessment procedures.
- Knowledge of public health management protocols.
- Knowledge of child development and educational principles and approaches pertinent to children with various
- disabilities and learning needs.
- Knowledge of educational approaches for planning and implementation of intervention programs for children
- and families.
- Knowledge of DPA policies and procedures.
- Ability to perform clinical tasks professionally.
- Ability to identify symptoms of diseases and chronic medical problems.
- Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, and the ability to communicate with those with
- sight, hearing, and speech impairments.
- Good computer skills, and the ability to use all relevant software.
- Ability to build productive internal and external working relationships and to resolve mutual problems by
- collaborating on procedures or transactions.
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
- Ability to organize and prioritize tasks and manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
- Ability to provide standard professional advice and create initial reports/analysis for review by experienced
- team professionals.
- The ability to assist students with toileting, feeding, transference from one seat to another seat or location.
- The ability to remove students’ clothing, diaper students, and clean students.
- Occasionally required to move equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Occasionally required to maneuver and assist people weighing from 25 pounds to more than 100 pounds.
- Occasionally exposed to hazardous fluids.
- Occasionally exposed to the risk of needlesticks and exposure to communicable diseases.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree is required.
- Nursing Certification from Department of Education recommended
- Previous work experience in a school nurse setting is recommended.
- Minimum of three (3) years experience in an doctor’s office setting.
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health, dental and vision insurance
- Employer contribution into TRSGA retirement program for employee
- Competitive salary range
- Paid vacation/sick leave
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