School Nurse (Anticipated Opening)

Chicopee Public Schools•Chicopee, MA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

The School Nurse will be responsible for providing comprehensive health services within the school environment. This includes conducting various health screenings, maintaining health records, communicating student health needs to faculty and staff, administering medications, and ensuring sanitary conditions. The nurse will also serve as a health consultant, assist with health-related counseling, and participate in meetings and training programs related to health services and curriculum. Additionally, the role involves making referrals to specialists, collaborating with community health agencies, and contributing to the formation of school health policies.

Requirements

Licensed Registered Nurse
Certified as a School Nurse by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Certified in CPR
Civil Service eligible
Must be able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, adding machines, etc.
Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Must be able to stand, crouch and bend over for a long period of time at intervals throughout the day.
Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, schedules, manuals, invoices, requisitions, menus, recipes, journals, etc.
Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, procedures, charts, surveys, articles, bid specifications, brochures, news releases, handbooks, budgets, etc. using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.
Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal, accounting and marketing terminology
Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra and geometry
Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape
Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instruction. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone

Responsibilities

Schedules and is present at all school health services, including all physical examinations, all immunization clinics, vision and hearing rechecks, scoliosis rechecks, pediculosis checks, hepatitis checks, etc.
Maintains up-to-date health records
Assumes responsibility for informing faculty and staff of those students with special health problems, i.e. life threatening allergies, diabetic, heart, petit mal, etc.
Interprets health status of a student to his/her parents and school personnel without breaching confidentiality.
Observes students on a regular basis to determine health needs
Authorizes the exclusion and/or readmission of students with contagious or infectious diseases
Administers first aid in accordance with established first aid procedures
Administers medications when necessary
Secures all medications
Assists principal in establishing sanitary conditions within the school
Serves as a health consultant and resource person for the classroom teacher conducting health related classes when requested
Contacts and visits homes of children referred by principal where related counseling is required
Maintains adequate first aid supplies in each school
Attends IDEA evaluation and reevaluation meetings
Advises on modification of the educational program to meet health needs of the individual student through the IDEA and 504 process
Assumes authority, in the absence of a physician, for the care of a student or staff member who has suffered injury or emergency illness
Attends committee meetings and conferences regarding health services and health curriculum including Safety Committee
Participates in in-service training programs
Prepares and submits reports as requested by the Supervisor of Nurses, Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services and the Superintendent of Schools as required
Makes formal referrals to specialists when appropriate and conducts follow-up or referrals
Works with the community health agencies when necessary
Assists in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives of the school department
Performs other duties as directed by the Supervisor of Nurses, Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services and the Superintendent of Schools