School Nurse
- Employer
- Cherokee County School District - GA
- Location
- Milton, GA
- Closing date
- Oct 9, 2024
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- Sector
- Nursing, General Nursing
- Organization Type
- Corporate
Job Description Code: 4J.035
Division/Department: School Leadership and Operations
Pay Grade: RN Salary Schedule
Pay Type: Hourly; Non-Exempt
Retirement: TRS
Contract Work Year: 184 Days; 8 hours/day
Reports To: Principal and Lead Nurse
Evaluation Instrument: PEI
Minimum QualificationsRegistered Nurse (R.N.) or LPN
GOALSchool nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health, safety and wellness; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.
Representative Duties & Responsibilities
IMPORTANT NOTESEssential DutiesJob descriptions are designed and intended only to summarize the essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements for the purpose of clarifying the general nature and scope of a position's role as part of the overall organization. Job descriptions do not list all tasks an employee might be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right of the employer/supervisor to assign additional tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed - even if seemingly unrelated to the basic job. Every employee has a duty to perform all assigned tasks. (An employee who is assigned a duty or task believed to be unlawful should report the assignment to the Chief Human Resources Officer.) It should also be noted the order of duties/ responsibilities as listed in the job description is not designed or intended to rank the duties in any order of importance relative to each other.
Minimum RequirementsIn filling a vacant position, preferred or required credentials regarding education, training, experience, and other bona fide occupational qualifications may be established. The credentials shown in this job description may be interpreted only as the minimum criteria existing at the time the description was developed. Other bona fide occupational qualifications and criteria may be utilized as needed in the selection process.
Fringe BenefitsFICA is paid by the employee and matched by the School District. Temporary workers do not qualify for employee benefits.
Adopted: April 2000
Revised: June 2007, July 2008, April 2011, May 2015, February 2017, July 2019, July 2024
Division/Department: School Leadership and Operations
Pay Grade: RN Salary Schedule
Pay Type: Hourly; Non-Exempt
Retirement: TRS
Contract Work Year: 184 Days; 8 hours/day
Reports To: Principal and Lead Nurse
Evaluation Instrument: PEI
Minimum QualificationsRegistered Nurse (R.N.) or LPN
GOALSchool nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health, safety and wellness; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.
Representative Duties & Responsibilities
- Attend continuing education updates provided by the school district and participate in training programs as determined by the Lead Nurse to increase skills and proficiency related to school health.
- Review and stay abreast of current developments, literature and technical source information to maintain proficiency related to job responsibilities and student needs.
- Function as a health resource and liaison among students and staff concerning health promotion and wellness.
- Provide education and training to appropriate staff relative to Individualized Action Plans and identified health needs of students.
- Prepare clinic for the opening of school according to the Beginning of the Year Checklist found in the School Health Resource Manual.
- Maintain medical supplies in clinic according to the medical supply list found in the School Health Resource Manual.
- Maintain accurate, updated health information on each student after examining the Student Health Needs Identification Forms.
- Notify Lead Nurse of personal absences as required. Develop a substitute nurse folder for reference in the absence of regular school nurse.
- Administer medication in accordance with guidelines set forth in the School Health Resource Manual. Provide field trip medications as directed by the Field Trip Medication Guidelines.
- Assess situations and render care to students as outlined in the School Health Resource Manual.
- The school nurse will provide limited, immediate short-term care to students with an injury or illness until parents or designated persons can be notified and assume responsibility for the sick or injured student. These physical requirements include, but are not limited to:
- the ability to timely respond and attend to emergency situations that may occur throughout the facility; and
- the ability to perform lifting, supporting and movement of students.
IMPORTANT NOTESEssential DutiesJob descriptions are designed and intended only to summarize the essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements for the purpose of clarifying the general nature and scope of a position's role as part of the overall organization. Job descriptions do not list all tasks an employee might be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right of the employer/supervisor to assign additional tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed - even if seemingly unrelated to the basic job. Every employee has a duty to perform all assigned tasks. (An employee who is assigned a duty or task believed to be unlawful should report the assignment to the Chief Human Resources Officer.) It should also be noted the order of duties/ responsibilities as listed in the job description is not designed or intended to rank the duties in any order of importance relative to each other.
Minimum RequirementsIn filling a vacant position, preferred or required credentials regarding education, training, experience, and other bona fide occupational qualifications may be established. The credentials shown in this job description may be interpreted only as the minimum criteria existing at the time the description was developed. Other bona fide occupational qualifications and criteria may be utilized as needed in the selection process.
Fringe BenefitsFICA is paid by the employee and matched by the School District. Temporary workers do not qualify for employee benefits.
Adopted: April 2000
Revised: June 2007, July 2008, April 2011, May 2015, February 2017, July 2019, July 2024
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