Substitute Nurse

Warren Woods Public Schools•Warren, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Substitute position for a Certified School Nurse for Special Education POHI County Programs at Warren Woods MS and Warren Woods HS, as well as general school nurse responsibilities for all district buildings. This role involves serving as a liaison between school staff, families, and physicians to promote effective patient case management. The nurse will consult with staff and IEP teams, assess and evaluate student health status, and plan actions to address health problems that interfere with educational benefit. Responsibilities include training and delegating tasks to Health Care paraprofessionals and staff for chronic illness management, mental health support, emergency care, and injury/illness prevention. The role also involves enforcing infection control policies, initiating modifications in the educational program when indicated by health status, providing ongoing supervision to designated staff, obtaining necessary authorizations, recommending modifications to the student's educational program/environment, ensuring sanitary standards of the school's health clinic, maintaining OSHA standards, recording proper documentation of health records and IEP reports, and requisitioning supplies and equipment. The position also requires maintaining professional competence and seeking professional development.

Requirements

RN License
Bachelor’s Degree from accredited university
Pediatric or community health experience
Experience with chronic disease management
Experience with Ventilator management desirable
Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program.
Ability to plan and implement lessons based on content, curriculum and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to whom assigned.
Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents.
Skilled in oral and written communication.
Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.
Ability to apply assessment instruments.
Ability to operate standard office equipment including using pertinent software applications.
Ability to prepare and maintain accurate records.
Ability to perform basic math, including calculations using fractions, percentages, and/or ratios.
Ability to read technical information.
Ability to compose a variety of documents.
Ability to facilitate group discussions.
Ability to analyze situations to define issues and draw conclusions.
Knowledge of appropriate codes, policies, regulations and/or laws.
Knowledge of age-appropriate activities.
Knowledge of content.
Knowledge of lesson plan requirements.
Knowledge of stages of child development.
Knowledge of behavioral management strategies.
Ability to schedule activities, meetings, and/or events.
Ability to gather, collate, and/or classify data.
Ability to use job-related equipment.
Flexibility to work with others in a wide variety of circumstances.
Ability to analyze data utilizing defined but different processes.
Ability to operate equipment using standardized methods.
Ability to work with a diversity of individuals and/or groups.
Ability to work with data of varied types and/or purposes.
Ability to utilize specific, job-related equipment.
Problem solving to analyze issues and create action plans.
Ability to withstand the physical and mental rigors of teaching.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Ventilator management

Responsibilities

Serves as liaison between school staff, family, and family physicians to promote effective patient case management.
Consults with staff and IEP teams.
Identifies, assesses, and evaluates the health status of the pupil to make a nursing diagnosis.
Interprets individual student’s health status and plans action for eliminating, minimizing, or accepting health problems that interfere with educational benefit.
Trains and delegates tasks to Health Care paraprofessionals and staff on daily management of chronic illness and potentially emergent situations.
Provides mental health support.
Provides emergency care.
Provides injury and illness care and prevention.
Enforces established infection control policies and procedures on the exclusion and readmission of students with infectious and contagious diseases.
As a special education team member, initiates modifications in the educational program when indicated by the health or developmental status of the pupil and assists with formulating an appropriate health care plan.
Provides ongoing supervision to designated staff.
Obtains physician and parent authorization where indicated.
Recommends modifications of the student’s educational program/environment.
Ensures that sanitary standards of the school’s health clinic are being met and maintains OSHA standards regarding blood borne pathogens and other potentially infectious body materials.
Records proper documentation of health records on all students, including IEP reports.
Aids with requisitions needed for supplies and equipment.
Maintains professional competence and seeks professional development.
Performs other duties as may be assigned by administration.