School Nurse jobs in Chattanooga, TN

Job Description

• Current CPR Certification.

JOB GOAL The school LPN works with the RN in strengthening and facilitating the educational process by promoting an optimal level of wellness for students and staff.

The LPN may be specifically assigned to a particular school working with medically fragile students so that these students can attend school in the least restrictive environment as possible, or the LPN may be assigned to a specific school or schools to appropriately address the day-to-day medical needs of the students.

• Collect information about the health and developmental status of the student in a systemic manner.
• Use data collected about the health and developmental status of the student to determine a nursing diagnosis.
• Develop a nursing care plan (IHP) with specific goals and intervention delineating school nursing actions unique to a student's needs.
• Intervene as guided by the nursing plan to implement nursing actions that promote, maintain, or restore health, prevent illness, and effect rehabilitation.
• Assess student responses to nursing actions in order to revise the database, nursing diagnosis, and nursing care plan and to determine progress made toward goal achievement.

• Serve as a resource person to school personnel, students, and families, through interpretation of health data and assists them to achieve optimal levels of wellness through health education.
• Provide emergency and first aid when on site.
• Act as the system first-responder in emergency situations at the school site and at bus accidents before an ambulance arrives.
• Assist in control of communicable diseases.

• Monitor and helps to maintain school records.

• Prioritize and schedule work in appropriate manner and follows through to completion.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Schools/designee.

• Lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling
• Climbing and/or balancing
• Stooping, kneeling and/or crawling
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instruction.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to adequately learn or perform a task or job duty.

The regular school day and school calendar (180 days) will be the norm; typically expected to work 7.5 hours a day.

NON-EXEMPT from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act in regard to earning (and being appropriately paid) time and a half for all work over forty hours in the defined work week (defined as Sunday 12:00 a.m.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position.