Nurse - Substitute

GENERAL DEFINITION AND CONDITIONS OF WORK

To assist in providing and maintaining a school health clinic and program that promotes optimum health for each student while they are under the school’s jurisdiction.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/TYPICAL TASKS

The minimum performance expectations include, but are not limited to, the following functions/tasks:

• Assist with setting and maintaining standards of emergency care to minimize the effects of accidents and illness in the school.
• Respond to calls for emergencies in assigned school to evaluate the illness or injury.
• Administer first aid wherever necessary.
• Provide physical inspection for all referred students to include as needed, teeth, blood pressure, temperature, throats, vision, and posture.
• Assist with preschool registration.
• Inform parents of preschoolers of health regulations for entry into school.
• In case of emergency, transport students to a doctor’s office or hospital emergency room when the rescue squad is not needed.
• Make referrals for home visits to the Home School Coordinator to investigate school health concerns and do a follow-up visit with the Registered Nurse or Home School Coordinator, as appropriate.
• Secure copies of medical records and birth certificates for cumulative folders and keep current.
• Send notes, mail letters, and make phone calls to parents regarding health concerns or illness.
• Refer students with physical or emotional illness to the health department, mental health  agency, school counselor or school psychologist.
• Keep a list of all students’ health problems with direction from parents or a family physician on action to be taken in case of emergencies (i.e., students with known physical illness such as diabetes, epilepsy, severe allergies to bee stings, etc.)
• Serve as a resource speaker or team-teach in a classroom to present certain health units to educate students in becoming knowledgeable health consumers.
• Follow-up with parents of children who have a prolonged absence due to illness. (Home School Coordinator or attendance clerk will be making referrals.)
• Maintain standards of emergency care to minimize the effects of accidents and illness in school.
• Coordinate other agencies’ health related referrals and services.
• Assist Principals with evaluation and identification of communicable diseases and coordination of services to the students.
• Delivery of medications to students as required by Board policy.
• After approval, report the student’s health status and reaction at school to medication(s) or those factors in the school that might affect their condition to the student’s physician.
• Provide screening(s) to all students as required by Board policy.
• Assist in the development and periodic revision of first aid policies and policies for caring for ill students.
• Other related duties as assigned by the Principal and/or Director of
  Special Education.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Persons employed as a primary School Nurse in Culpeper County Public School shall:

• Present acceptable recommendations from persons, preferable former employers, who can attest that the applicant possess the personal characteristics and competence necessary for satisfactory performance of assigned duties.
• Have the ability to exhibit skills in the proper use of English language.
• Have the ability to participate in professional development activities to meet the needs of the school system’s health program.
• Maintain good working relationships with all employees and the public.
• Communicate openly and effectively with students, parents, community patrons, staff and administration as a positive representative of Culpeper County School system.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

All applicants are required by the state of Virginia to have, at a minimum, an L.P.N. license.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS

This is sedentary work requiring stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pulling, routine lifting up to 20 pounds, grasping and repetitive motions; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels, and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or computer data, operation of machines, and determining the accuracy and thoroughness of work.