Job Details

• Provide health services to strengthen and facilitate the educational process by modifying or removing health-related barriers to learning in the individual students.
• Promote an optimal level of wellness of students and staff by providing preventive health services to facilitate the students and staff's optimal physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development.
• Identify problems and disabilities and provide such services as case finding, health education, referring, and care in order to help prevent serious health problems and manage current chronic conditions.

• Promote and protect the optimal health status of school-age children 2. Provides health assessments
• Obtain every patient's health history
• Screen and evaluate findings of deficit in vision, hearing, growth, etc.
• Observe the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment.
• Identify abnormal health findings.
• Develop and implement a student health plan.
• Interpret the health status of students to parents and school personnel.
• Initiate referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through.
• Provide ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies.
• Utilize existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
• Maintain, evaluate, and interpret cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students
• Plan and implement school health management protocols
• Develop procedures and provide emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses n) Promote and assist in the control of communicable diseases.
• Provide health education and anticipatory guidance
• Provide direct health education, and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health.
• 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.
• Serve as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction.
• Coordinate school and community health activities and serve as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community.
• Act as a resource person in promoting health careers.
• Engage in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices.
• Provide consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school district.