School Nurse (RN)

OLV Human Services • Lackawanna, NY

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you a compassionate, dedicated nurse who wants to make a meaningful difference in the lives of students? Victory Learning Center at Ridge is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team! 🩺🩹💙 As a key member of our school community, you will serve as an educator, advocate, liaison, and consultant on health-related issues for students, families, and staff. This is more than just a nursing role—it’s an opportunity to truly impact lives every day. Click here to learn more about Victory Learning Center: https://www.victoryed.org/programs/victory-learning-center Additional Information: Full Time MTWThF 7:30a-3:30p Hourly Rate: Based on relevant years of licensed experience Job Summary:The Registered Nurse is an integral part of the Victory Learning School program in supporting an optimum physical, mental, emotional and social climate for all students and staff. The school nurse acts as an educator, advocate, liaison and consultant on health related issues for students, families and school personnel.

Requirements

• Customer skills
• Computer skills
• Monitoring /Assessment skills
• Communication: Oral and written
• Decision-making ability: The aptitude to extract, interpret, integrate and manage information correctly and make timely and concise decisions for the best course of action, among multiple alternatives, to enable the decision-making process to take place on a higher level in order to achieve objectives.
• Problem solving: Takes a systematic approach to solving problems rather than reacting to symptoms
• Teamwork ability: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job
• Attention to detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks
• Minimum Degree Required: AAS /BSN Degree from an accredited Nursing school
• Minimum Experience Required: 2 years
• Required License/Registration/ Certification: Registered Nurse (RN) NYS Licensure
• Strength: Sufficient to assist with lifting and transferring a patient, and perform CPR
• Mobility: Sufficient mobility to bend, stoop, and bend down to the floor; ability to move around rapidly; and to move in small, confined areas.
• Hearing: Sufficient to hear through the stethoscope to discriminate sounds; to hear cries for help; to hear alarms on equipment and emergency signals; and various overhead pages.
• Vision: Sufficient to make physical assessments of patients and equipment.
• Communication: Able to communicate in both verbal and written formats; and interact with clients, staff, and faculty supervisors.

Responsibilities

• Conduct medical assessment of individuals.
• Decide interventions following the nursing process.
• Provide education on medical issues and concerns to individuals, their families and employees as indicated on their plan of care and diagnosis.
• Monitor the medical states of the individuals of their care and adjust as appropriate.
• Perform any other duties listed on the daily/weekly/monthly/semi-annually/annually site specific responsibility checklist.
• Participates as the health specialist in the child education evaluation team to develop the health individualized educational plan. (I.E.P.)
• Attends multi-disciplinary team meetings and staff meetings as directed by the principal.
• Maintains all required health records per school regulation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree