School Nurse-Part Time

TITLE:  School Nurse

CATEGORY:  Classified

SALARY: 

FLSA EXEMPT:  No

JOB GOAL:  To coordinate and provide school health services to students.

REPORTS TO: Assistant Superintendent

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

1. Current valid state license as a Registered Nurse (preferred). LPNs with strong work experience will be considered..
2. Ability to work well with students, parents, and staff. 
3. Physical demands – must be able to stand and walk the majority of the day; lift and carry twenty (20) to thirty (30) pounds frequently, and up to one hundred (100) pounds occasionally; push or pull same amounts frequently.  Job may also require frequent bending and stooping.

JOB DUTIES:

1. Flexibility and Availability to cover at any Berrien County School when the nurse is out.
2. Assess sick/injured staff and students.
3. Enter health clinic forms into Powerschool and file.
4. Work with parents/guardians on medication consent forms and signatures.
5. Fax consents to doctor’s offices and billing offices.
6. Enter student medication dosages into EMR and chart medication dosages given to students in EMR.
7. Contact parents/guardians for inhalers and asthma action plans for those students with asthma.
8. Contact parents/guardians of those students with seizures and keep SAP up to date as well as emergency seizure medication at school.
9. Contact parents/guardians of those students with allergies and keep a UTD allergy action plan and medication on file.
10. Contact parents/guardians of those students with Diabetes and keep UTD info on plan. 
11. Help to train teachers/staff about asthma, seizures, allergies, diabetes or any other health diagnosis the teachers/staff would need to know about. 
12. Assist nurses when the dental van is at school.
13. Send home tele-med packets with students. After receiving packets back, check that they are correctly filled out, document in the computer and file.
14. Administer tele-med appointments at school.
15. Order supplies for the nurse's clinic.
16. Assist with EpiPen/Albuterol protocol paperwork and ordering and receiving those medications for the clinic.
17. Make sure all medication and supplies are not expired in the clinics.
18. Assist with CPR training of faculty and staff.
19. When covering clinics, fill out workers' comp paperwork as needed.
20. Attend and provide medical knowledge in parent/teacher meetings when needed.
21. Help file all medical paperwork.
22. Assist nurse with billing.
23. Assist nurse with identifying which students with certain health diagnoses ride the bus and provide info for the bus drivers as well as teaching when needed.
24. Scoliosis screening for the middle school. 
25. Help BHS with immunization compliance and DPH audits
26. Assist with STOP the BLEED training for staff.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:  Position works part-time

EVALUATION:  Performance is evaluated in accordance with the personnel policy on classified evaluations.