Greenville Public School District
Job Description
School Nurse
Title: School Nurse
Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Possession of a current Mississippi license to practice as a registered professional nurse
- Three years experience as a registered professional nurse, preferable in public health nursing
Job Goal: To provide the fullest possible educational opportunity for each student by minimizing absence due to illness and creating a climate of health and well-being in the district schools
Reports To: Superintendent of Education, the Deputy Superintendent, and/or the Superintendent’s designee
Missions and Goals
- Works with the Superintendent and those who he/she supervises to articulate and promote the school system's vision of learning and teaching
- Monitors and evaluates progress toward accomplishment of system goals and objectives
- Uses student data to identify program needs
- Develops goals, objectives, programs, and operations that are consistent with school system vision, mission, and goals
- Ensures that unit and program plans are consistent with the system's strategic plan
- Organizes daily, monthly, and yearly schedules to facilitate learning and teaching in the schools
- Communicates high expectations of students, staff, and parents/guardians
- Creates, identifies, encourages, and supports innovative ideas that in turn support learning and teaching in the schools
Performance Responsibilities
- To serve as a health consultant to parents, pupils and teachers
- To provide health counseling and guidance to pupils to promote optimum growth and development
- To plan with and assist teachers in teaching units of health instruction to pupils
- To participate in the formulation of policies and procedures for the control of communicable diseases within the school, taking into consideration local health department regulations
- To interpret these policies and procedures to school personnel, parents and pupils
- To participate in planning policies and procedures for emergency care of illness and injury occurring while pupils are under school jurisdiction
- To plan for necessary supplies and equipment, both for her needs and emergency care for a delegated person's use
- To observe the school environment and report health and safety hazards to the school principal
- To assist in the development of procedures to assess the total health status of all pupils
- To assume responsibility for screening procedures used in health appraisals
- To identify health problems through observations and interviews
- To help pupils to develop self-reliance in dealing with personal health and to accept and adjust positively to their physical, mental, and social limitations
- To consult with parents regarding the health of their children
- To promote and foster intercommunications with physicians, dentist, and community agencies to plan for the well-being of pupils
- To interpret health, social needs, and resources to school personnel
- To conduct and participate in studies of school nursing methods, procedures and service accomplishments and be alert to needs for improvements
- To appraise the school health program in terms of meeting pupil health needs
- To participate in workshops and studies related to various aspects of the total school health program
- To perform such other duties and assume such other responsibilities as assigned by the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, Federal Programs Director, and/or the Superintendent's designee
Terms of Employment: Salary and work year will be established by the Board
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.
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