POSITION: Itinerant School Nurse for Summer Enrollment/Programs
PRIMARY LOCATION: Itinerant
QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor's Degree in nursing, RN license, West Virginia School Nurse Certification, 2 years nursing experience preferred.
EMPLOYMENT TERM: 15 scheduled days (July 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 2025)
*Could work up to 25 additional hours
ROLE: Assist with entering student immunizations and all pertinent health information. Contacting parents/guardians and other personnel including health care professionals as needed. Providing school nurse coverage for summer programs as needed.
FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:
1. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of children.
2. Provides health assessments.
a. Obtains a health and developmental history, as needed.
b. Screens and evaluates some health issues such as vision.
c. Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing
assessment and nursing diagnosis.
d. Identifies deviant health findings and makes appropriate referrals.
3. Develops and implements a health plan, as needed.
a. Interprets the health status of pupils to parents and school personnel.
b. Initiates referrals to parents, school personnel and community health
resources for intervention, remediation, and follow through.
c. Provides on-going health counseling with pupils, parents, school
personnel, and health agencies.
d. Recommends and helps to implement modification of school programs
to meet students’ health needs.
e. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
4. Maintains, evaluates, and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual
needs of students.
5. Participates as the health team specialist on the child education evaluation team to develop the Individual Education Plan (IEP), or 504 plan, as needed.
6. Plans and implements school health management protocols for the child with special health needs, including the administration of medication.
7. Participates in home visits to assess the family’s needs as related to the child’s health.
8. Develops procedures and provides for crisis intervention for acute illness, injury, and emotional disturbances.
9. Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases through preventive immunization programs, early detection, surveillance, and reporting of contagious diseases.
10. Recommends provisions for a school environment conducive to learning.
11. Provides health education which may include:
a. Teach parenting skills as they relate to child development and health needs
of children.
b. Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and
families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health.
c. Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of
health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to
assume greater responsibility for their own health.
d. Counsels with students concerning problems such as pregnancy, sexually
transmitted diseases, mental health issues, and substance abuse in order to
facilitate responsible decision-making practices.
e. Serves as a resource person to the classroom teacher and administrator(s) in
health instruction and as a member of the health curriculum development
Committees.
12. Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison person between the home, school, and community.
13. Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers.
14. Provides health counseling for staff.
15. Provides leadership and/or support for staff wellness programs.
16. Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health problems and school nursing practices.
17. Assists in the formation of health policies, goals, and objectives for the school district.