School Nurse at Total Teachers Education

Responsibilities

This professional school nursing position is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services that:

• Maximize the quantity of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health related absenteeism,
• Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
• Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
• Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors

The School Nurse Will Provide

Standards of Care

• Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the client's health or situation
• Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues
• Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the client or situation
• Planning: Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes
• Implementation: Implements the identified plan through coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion and consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of others and effect change.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress towards attainment of outcomes

Standards of Professional Performance

• Quality of Practice:
  Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• Education:
  Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice
• Professional Practice Evaluation:
  Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations
• Collegiality:
  Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues
• Collaboration:
  Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice
• Ethics:
  Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice
• Research:
  Integrates research findings into practice
• Resource Utilization:
  Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice on the planning and delivery of school nursing services
• Leadership:
  Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession
• Program Management:
  Manages school health services

Requirements

Auxiliary Nurses/Trained Nurses

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Responsibilities

This professional school nursing position is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services that:

• Maximize the quantity of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health related absenteeism,
• Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
• Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
• Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors

The School Nurse Will Provide

Standards of Care

• Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the client's health or situation
• Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues
• Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the client or situation
• Planning: Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes
• Implementation: Implements the identified plan through coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion and consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of others and effect change.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress towards attainment of outcomes

Standards of Professional Performance

• Quality of Practice:
  Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• Education:
  Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice
• Professional Practice Evaluation:
  Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations
• Collegiality:
  Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues
• Collaboration:
  Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice
• Ethics:
  Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice
• Research:
  Integrates research findings into practice
• Resource Utilization:
  Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice on the planning and delivery of school nursing services
• Leadership:
  Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession
• Program Management:
  Manages school health services

Requirements

Auxiliary Nurses/Trained Nurses