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Nurse | StaffEZ

Nurse

Serving Manchester City Schools

Education and Experience: 

  • Currently hold an active RN license in Tennessee

Qualifications: 

  • Work cooperatively with district administrators, principals, and teachers,
  • Maintain confidentiality of information associated with position,
  • Communicate effectively in both oral and written format
  • Type at acceptable speed and accuracy levels
  • Stay current in trends and best practices
  • Develop and implement effective staff development activities
  • Reason and make good judgments
  • Present information effectively in verbal and written format
  • Perform the essential functions and requirements of the job
  • Meet satisfactory health standards.

Essential Functions: 

  • Review student health histories and develop individual health plans for students with special health needs.
  • Write critical care plans for students who may experience a need for emergency care while at school.
  • Conduct screening programs including, but not limited to, the following areas:  vision, hearing, scoliosis, blood pressure and body mass index.
  • Make referrals as needed after review of screening results.
  • Counsel students, families and school personnel on risks to health.
  • Coordinate health promotion activities that raise awareness and encourage healthy lifestyles.
  • Administer medication and/or provide treatments as needed to sustain school attendance for students.
  • When applicable, participate in the development of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) for students with health-related problems.
  • Provide special nursing services to include: blood glucose monitoring, suctioning, nebulizer treatments, blood pressure monitoring and other procedures necessary to ensure the health needs of students.
  • Provide training to staff members to include: CPR, first aid, management of choking, use of automated external defibrillator and exposure control to bloodborne pathogens.
  • Promote and assist in the control of communicable disease.
  • Provide emergency care in case of sudden illness and administer first aid in case of injury to students or staff.
  • Provide training and supervision in proper medication administration.  May teach volunteer staff in the emergency administration of epinephrine, glucagon and diastat as prescribed by a physician.
  • Monitor immunization records and entrance physicals.
  • Act as a resource person to school staff regarding health education and health education materials.
  • Coordinate with the Coordinated School Health Coordinator the Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) training in the district.
  • Assist the Coordinated School Health Coordinator in tracking the overall utilization and maintenance of AED’s in the District.

Other Responsibilities: 

  • Performs other work duties or responsibilities as assigned by the principal or director of schools.

Physical Abilities: 

This position requires lifting of objects not to exceed 25 pounds without assistance and the wearing of a safety support belt and frequent lifting and/or carrying objects that weigh 10 pounds or more.  Other physical abilities that may be required are:

  • Lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling
  • Climbing and/or balancing
  • Stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling
  • Reaching, handling, and/or feeling
  • Talking and/or hearing
  • Seeing.

THE ABOVE STATEMENTS ARE INTENDED TO DESCRIBE THE GENERAL NATURE AND LEVEL OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY PERSON(S) ASSIGNED TO THIS POSITION. THEY ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE A COMPLETE LIST OF RESPONSIBILITIES, DUTIES AND SKILLS REQUIRED OF PERSON(S) SO ASSIGNED.

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