What are the responsibilities and job description for the Float School Nurse position at Nashoba Regional School District?
Position: School Nurse/Float Nurse
Location: Nashoba Regional School District
Pay: Unit A contract
The Nashoba Regional School District inspires and challenges all learners to realize their unique potential and become active contributors to their community.
Nashoba’s core values remain constant, provide the foundation for our work, and influence how we conduct ourselves and engage with others. Our core values are academic achievement and personal growth; voice, choice and agency; lifelong learning; a safe, caring and inclusive community; collaborative partnerships; innovation; and a sense of belonging.
School Nurses are employed without regard to age, physical, mental or psychiatric disability, genetics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, or military status.
NRSD welcomes employees with diverse racial, cultural, religious, class, and/or gender background and experiences.
Organizational Scope:
Assists the administration and members of the educational team in providing the fullest possible educational opportunity for each student by minimizing absence due to illness and creating an optimal environment of health and well being within the school.
Position Responsibilities:
- Conducts health screenings as directed by state statutes, district policies and administrative plans.
- Observes students to assess and detect individual health needs.
- Provides direct nursing care as needed to meet the needs of the students
- Administers first aid in accordance with established first aid procedures from a recognized agency, i.e. American Heart Association.
- Maintains up-to-date cumulative health records on all students and reports any discrepancies.
- Collaborates and reports to school personnel, administration, physicians, and agencies to ensure consistent communication and implementation of student health needs in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Assumes authority, in the absence of a physician, for emergent care of a student or faculty member who has sustained an injury or developed a serious illness.
- Implements district policy and state statutes on attendance exclusion and readmission with regard to infection/contagious disease, as well as non-compliance with immunization requirements.
- Provides Universal Precautions instruction and reinforcement to students and staff.
- Float Nurses serve district-wide at the direction of the Director of Health, Wellness and Safety.
Job Qualifications & Physical Demands:
Current Massachusetts Registered Nurse licensure current CPR and First Aid certification required. Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to assist in the protection of students and school property, assist the principal in fire and other emergency drills as required by law and School Commit
