Substitute School Nurse at Boone Community School District in Boone, IA

Job description

District Wide Substitute Nurse Position The Boone Community School District has made a significant effort to live our motto Expect the Best...Achieve Success . Boone Community School District is located 10 minutes west of Ames and roughly 1 hour north of the Des Moines Metro Area. Our staff work daily to Value the Uniqueness of All, Give a Fresh Start Each Day, Partner with Families, Develop Positive Character, and Ensure Learning. We have earned a reputation for being an innovative and progressive school district that includes $43+million in building projects completed in the fall of 2024. This includes a Pre-K-1st grade early childhood learning center and a multipurpose education center. The City of Boone is a great place to live, grow and play. Boone is voted #1 Affordable Small Town... Where You'd Actually Want to Live by Realtor.com. As needed nurse within the Boone School District EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE: Registered Nurse License BOEE Statement of Professional Recognition TECHNICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES: Highly developed oral and written communication skills. Ability to build relationships effectively and professionally with families and students. Experience developing and implementing curriculum. Physical ability to handle frequent sitting, stooping, bending, pushing, pulling, and moving throughout the room. Proven ability to maintain a safe and studious classroom environment. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement age-appropriate curriculum. Ability to collaborate within the school and instructional setting. Demonstrated desire to be a life-long learner. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Listed below are the essential tasks required for this job. Job Tasks Descriptions 1. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children 2. Provides health assessments 3. Provides health assessments, observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment, and identifies abnormal health findings 4. Develops and implements a student health plan 5. Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel 6. Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through. 7. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies 8. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students 9. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students 10. Plans and implements school health management protocols 11. Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses 12. Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health 13. Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health 14. Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction 15. Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community 16. Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers 17. Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices Provides consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school district. 18. Where applicable, participates in the IEP plan development 19. Assist with the Medicaid claiming process and do claiming on qualified students 20. Perform other duties as assigned. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS: PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES Amount of Time None Under 1/3 1/3 to 2/3 Over 2/3 Stand X Walk X Sit X Use hands to finger, handle or feel X PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES Amount of Time None Under 1/3