Nurse Coordinator, 12 months

Culpeper County School District•Culpeper, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

In addition to Nurse (RN) school-based responsibilities, the Nurse Coordinator will provide leadership to division nurses by communicating expectations, providing feedback, and making decisions based on professional knowledge. This role involves working with the director of student services and the director of human resources regarding various student and staff health issues.

Requirements

Registered Nurse license as required by the State of Virginia
3-5 years’ experience in clinical, community, or school setting
Or equivalent training, education, and/or experience
Must possess an RN or a BSN
Ability to demonstrates professional, moral, and ethical standards as well as personal integrity in all interactions within the school and within the community.
Ability to participate in professional development activities to meet the needs of the school system’s health program.
Ability to maintain good working relationships with all employees and the public.
Ability to communicate openly and effectively with students, parents, community patrons, staff, and administration as a positive representative of Culpeper County School system.
Skill in the proper use of the English language.
Other such qualifications as they relate to the assigned duties.

Nice To Haves

None

Responsibilities

Schedule monthly nurse team meetings, providing an advanced agenda, and minutes for each meeting.
Update as needed a manual for school nurses detailing professional roles, responsibilities, policies, procedures, and protocols.
Work with school nurses to maintain a student health database for tracking significant health trends.
Assure consistent policies, procedures, protocols, and practices within the health services of the school division.
Research health issues and appropriate medical protocols to share with various stakeholders as needed.
Provide medical advice to nurse team members and administrators when requested and work to develop student health plans, resolve student medical care issues and concerns as they occur.
Collect and disseminate pertinent information from the Virginia Department of Education, Virginia Department of Health, and The Centers for Disease Control.
Work with school nurses to maintain effective communication with students’ parents and physicians.
Review communication logs as part of the nurse evaluation.
Work with school nurses to improve identified students’ acquisition and utilization of eyeglasses or hearing aids.
Work with school nurses to update medical alerts in PowerSchool.
Manage the school division health services budget.
Order supplies, medicines, and equipment, staying with the allotted budget.
Maintain accurate records of supply orders, inventories on hand, and quantities distributed to individual clinics.
Assist in the hiring of school nurses by serving on interview panels with principals, providing information to the panel on candidates’ knowledge of nursing.
Provide effective initial training and mentoring for new nurses or for any nurse experiencing difficulties.
Complete clinic observations to evaluate the nurses in their work with students, adherence to appropriate medical protocols and health plans, inspect school clinics for cleanliness, proper storage of medicines, use of equipment, and organization.
Effectively assess the strengths and areas of improvement in the performance of each nurse and provide feedback to the nurse.
Provide observations and evaluations and other pertinent data to school principals for use in his/her evaluation of their nurse.
Work collaboratively with principals and the Executive Director of Student Services to investigate and resolve personnel concerns within the nursing staff.
Provide health-related staff development for school nurses, selected administrators, teachers, transportation personnel, custodians, and other appropriate staff to include monthly topical nurse in-services; CPR and AED certifications; diabetes management; blood-borne pathogens; allergy and asthma treatments; influenza and communicable disease prevention.
Perform other related duties as assigned by the Principal and/or Director of Special Education.
Performs other assigned duties.