Substitute Registered Nurse
About The Position
CAPS Collaborative seeks a reliable, caring, and energetic substitute Registered Nurse to support students with multiple disabilities during its extended school year. The position can start immediately. The nurse manages the school health program in accordance with applicable guidelines, regulations, and statutes governing school health. CAPS Collaborative partners with districts to provide high-quality programs and services and to help students transition to the least restrictive environment in their home school district. Its organizational values include exceptional educational opportunities, responsiveness to district needs, quality, integrity, respect, teamwork, accountability, and cost-effective decision-making.
Requirements
- Hold a current Massachusetts nursing license.
- Demonstrate professional conduct.
- Cope with the mental, emotional, and physical stresses of the position.
- Relate to and work with ill, disabled, emotionally upset, or injured students or staff.
- Be in good general health and demonstrate emotional stability.
- Be able to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
- Effectively work with staff, students, family members, visitors, governmental representatives, and the general public, demonstrating flexibility, tact, patience, and enthusiasm when working with students and staff.
- Be able to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
- Be willing to seek out new methods and principles and incorporate them into existing practices.
- Have excellent knowledge of nursing assessment and diagnosis; pediatric health issues, including care of technology-dependent students; nursing principles, interventions, and techniques; and their relationship to medical practices and quality assurance in nursing.
- Have knowledge of child development, current health issues, developmentally age-appropriate health risk factors, mental health issues, chronic and acute health conditions, current health practice, legislative issues, laws associated with student educational placement, infection control, universal health precautions, and personal hygiene.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills for communicating with students, teachers, parents, staff, administrators, and other health and educational professionals.
Responsibilities
- Assess and evaluate student health.
- Collect and maintain health records in accordance with state law and school policy, using computer and paper files.
- Follow up with students who fail screenings or have health problems.
- Visit program classrooms several times a day and as needed.
- Promote programs for disease prevention and control, using available resources such as the Red Cross, Pro Health, and pediatricians.
- Provide emergency care for injuries or sudden illness.
- Instruct, supervise, and carry out medical procedures for students, including gastrostomy tube feedings, catheterizations, nebulizer treatments, suction, and seizure protocols.
- Serve as a health, safety, and nutrition resource to staff, parents, and students.
- Respond to frequently encountered health problems.
- Report student medical information and classroom staff issues to Program Coordinators, including dismissals, seizures, bruises, and illness.
- Follow up on student absences.
- Maintain professional boundaries and appropriate student and staff confidentiality within the educational team.
- Assume other responsibilities deemed important by the Executive Director.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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