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Role Overview
School Nurse at International Schools Partnership. The school nurse is a registered professional nurse certified with the Maine Department of Education working in the school setting who strengthens and facilitates the educational process by improving and protecting the health status of children.
Role Purpose
The major focus of school nursing services is the prevention of illness and disability, and the early detection and correction of health problems. The school nurse is uniquely qualified in preventive health, health assessment, and referral procedures.
Key Responsibilities
Health Assessment
- Obtain a health and developmental history.
- Screen and evaluate findings for deficits in vision, hearing, scoliosis, growth, and other indicators.
- Observe the child for development and health patterns in making a nursing assessment and nursing diagnosis.
- Identify health findings which do not fall within the normal range.
- Assist with physical examinations when conducted in the school.
Health Planning and Implementation
- Interpret the health status of pupils to school personnel.
- Initiate referrals to parents, school personnel and community health resources for intervention, remediation, and follow through.
- Provide ongoing health information to pupils, parents, school personnel and health agencies.
- Recommend and help to implement modifications of school programs to meet students' health needs.
- Utilize existing health resources to provide appropriate care of pupils.
- Maintain, evaluate, and interpret cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.
Special Health Needs Management
- Participate as the health specialist on the child education evaluation team to develop the health individualized educational plan (I.E.P.).
- Plan and implement school health management protocols for the child with chronic health problems, including the administration of medication.
- Participate in home visits to assess the family's needs as related to the child's health.
Crisis Intervention and Disease Control
- Develop procedures and provide for crisis intervention for acute illness, injury and emotional disturbances.
- Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases through preventive immunization programs, early detection, surveillance and reporting of contagious diseases.
School Environment and Safety
- Recommend provisions for a school environment conducive to learning.
- Assist in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school unit.
Health Education and Promotion
- Provide health information to assist students and families in making health-related decisions.
- Participate 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.
- Provide information to adolescents concerning health problems in order to encourage responsible decision-making practices.
- Serve as a resource person to the classroom teacher and administrator in health instruction and as a member of the health curriculum development committees.
- Act as a resource person in promoting health careers.
Community Liaison and Coordination
- Coordinate school and community health activities and serve as a liaison person between the home, school, and community.
Research and Evaluation
- Engage in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices.
Qualifications & Experience
- Possession of a current license to practice professional nursing in Maine.
- Three years' experience as a professional registered nurse.
- Certification as required by the Maine Department of Education.
- A baccalaureate degree is required. If a candidate does not have a BS degree, they must be matriculating in a program to gain a bachelor's degree when applying for certification. The degree can be in nursing or a related field.
Additional Information
International Schools Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years' employment history.
ISP is committed to strengthening its inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics.