What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Nurse- Long-Term Substitute District Float Nurse position at Milton Public Schools?
School Nurse- Long-Term Substitute District Float Nurse
2025/2026 school year - start Immediately and ends June 24, 2026 (last day of school)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
1. Qualified to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Massachusetts and holds an unrestricted license
2. Certified in CPR or BLS
DISTRICT RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Registered Nurse
2. Minimum of two (2) years experience in public health nursing, community health nursing, school health nursing or pediatric nursing preferred
3. Acute care/ pediatric experience preferred
BASIC FUNCTIONS: To be able to function independently as the school nurse assigned to the building. The Milton Public School Nurse has the following basic functions:
●Provides health services to strengthen and facilitate the educational process by modifying or removing health-related barriers to learning in the individual students.
●Promote an optimal level of wellness of students and staff by providing preventive health services to facilitate the students and staff’s optimal physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development.
●Provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses.
●Management of current chronic conditions.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a school nurse, you will be expected to fulfill the responsibilities of the building’s school nurse as assigned. The usual responsibilities are listed below. This is not an exhaustive list and other responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
1. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children
2. Provides health assessments
3. Obtains a health history
4. Screens and evaluates findings of deficit in vision, hearing, growth, etc.
5. Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment.
6. Identifies abnormal health findings.
7. Attends field trips/ field days and off-campus activities
8. Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel
9. Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through.
10. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies.
11. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
12. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students
13. Implements school health management protocols.
14. Provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses
15. Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases.
16. Provides health education and anticipatory guidance
17. Provides direct health education, and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health.