RN-School Nurse - Palmyra Eagle Area School District

Fort HealthCare•Fort Atkinson, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Fort HealthCare is seeking a School Nurse to join their School Nursing team with the Palmyra Eagle Area School District. This role is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating school health services to maintain and/or improve the health status of students and/or staff, enabling them to fully benefit from the educational experience. The school nurse addresses chronic and/or acute health problems, ensures compliance with Federal and State Laws and Standards, and provides assistance and care to sick and injured students and staff. This role involves maintaining health and medical documentation, performing medical procedures, reviewing health education content, and providing preventive and screening services. Additionally, the school nurse offers staff education and training for emergency situations, first aid, CPR, AED use, bloodborne pathogens, communicable disease, and medication administration. The position may also involve skilled nursing interventions for various health issues and the delegation of duties to health aids or other trained staff. The school nurse must be competent to function independently as they are often the only licensed health care provider in a district.

Requirements

Associate Degree in Nursing plus Public/Community Health Nursing Course as outlined by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) required
At least 2 years nursing practice in Acute care and/or Pediatrics.
If ADN, expectation of completion of Public/Community Health Course within six months of employment required
Possesses excellent clinical assessment and nursing skills, clinical judgment, and problem-solving skills.
Able to effectively apply the nursing process to the school setting.
Specialized knowledge and understanding of Pediatrics and school age growth and development including health needs.
Able to communicate verbally and in writing with individuals with diverse learning skills, reading abilities, and comprehension.
Able to recognize and respond to non-verbal cues and communication.
Able to adapt communication skills for all ages.
Able to complete required clinical documentations and reports in legible handwriting or computer utilizing acceptable standards of medical definitions and abbreviations.
Ability to read, speak, write, and understand English well.
Have ability to perform cognitive processes to interpret student data and condition and contact physician with changes.
Function independently without direct supervision.
Ability to apply appropriate nursing and /or emergency procedures within the scope of nursing license and physician orders if needed for the procedure; ability to operate computer software programs; ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and work with fractions; adaptability to change; ability to cope with stress; ability to prioritize work and effectively manage time.
Able to drive in all types of weather to schools.
Able to exceed expectations of students, staff, and parents with customer service and skills required
Current Wisconsin Nursing license, valid Wisconsin driver's license, current auto insurance, BLS Certification-must be able to complete upon hire required

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or higher preferred
School Nurse experience, Public Health nursing experience, NCSN certification.
If ADN obtaining BSN within 5 years of initiation of employment preferred
NCSN certification preferred

Responsibilities

Administration of School Health Program: Addresses system-wide health services issues, coordinates and participates in the establishment, review, and implementation of school health services, emergency health, and crisis plan policies and procedures, and develops and reviews school nurse budget for the district's School Health Services. Bills third party payers for services that qualify.
Care Provider: Provides assistance and addresses the health care needs of sick and injured students and staff. Develops a process to identify students with known chronic illness and special health needs. Creates comprehensive Individualized Health Plans (IHP) and develops Emergency Action Plans (EAP) as appropriate. Provides invasive procedure-delegation training and follow-up; instructs school personnel how to manage students with chronic illness.
Community Collaborator and Advocate: Functions as the liaison between the school and local health service agencies and medical providers. Interprets health mandates, recommendations, and trends and shares as appropriate. Collaborates with other student services personnel to prevent health problems from becoming reasons for educational failure. Reports immunization data to county health agency.
Educator and Health Counseling: Provides education and health counseling to school staff, students, and families. Provides staff education and training for responding to emergency situations, first aid, CPR, AED use, bloodborne pathogens, communicable disease, and student specific issues. Develops and conducts in-service training for school personnel on health issues. Provides consultant service to classroom teachers in planning content, materials, and activities related to health instruction. Provides classroom health instruction when appropriate. Assists teachers upon request, and if schedule permits, with the instruction of certain health units. Develops and trains staff that provides health services, including the administration of medication to students. Coordinates the establishment of guidelines, procedures, and training in First Aid/CPR/First Responder Program for schools and staff.
School Health Knowledge: Understands the diverse aspects of school health services including preventive and screening services. Understands school as a non-traditional health care setting, school health law and policy, and special education legislation and services. Plans and coordinates screening programs including vision, hearing, dental, and kindergarten entrance. Detects health problems through observations, interviews, and analysis of records and documents health data, nursing diagnoses, health plans, interventions, and results. Establishes channels of communication among school staff to assure referral of and follow-through on pupil health problems.
Skills/Procedures: Competently performs, teaches unlicensed assistive personnel, and comfortably delegates nursing procedures in the school environment. Basic skills include medication administration, injury management, illness management, providing staff training, competency evaluation, supervision, and consultation on the administration of prescription and nonprescription medication at school (including emergency medications). Provides skilled nursing interventions for acute and chronic illness, injuries, emergencies, communicable diseases, obesity, substance use, adolescent pregnancy, mental health, dental disease, nutrition, and sexually transmitted infections. Responsible for keeping current in nursing specialty and career skills. Performs other duties as assigned. Represents Fort HealthCare in external and internal meetings and events. Completes department-specific orientation and annual competencies for this position.