School Nurse

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Provides health services to facilitate the student's optimal physical growth and development
• Identifies problems and disabilities and reports to necessary parties
• Helps to prevent serious health problems within the school environment
• Supports the education process by working with school personnel to support the health of the students
• Obtains a health history on each student
• Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel
• Initiates referral to parents, school personnel, or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through
• Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care for students
• Serves as health liaison between the school and community health agencies
• Counsels with students concerning problems such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and substance abuse in order to facilitate responsible decision-making practices (where applicable)
• Keeps up-to-date and accurate records of student visits and parental follow up
• Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent.

Required Skills:

• Qualifications to practice as a RN in the state of Georgia
• Supervisory experience preferred
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Certified in CPR
• Use of computer for record keeping purposes
• Ability to work as part of the administrative team