About the School Nurse Position
The School Nurse reporting to the Director of School Operations with support from the Nursing Coordinator and Regional Director of Operations will collaborate with school staff to maintain a safe and healthy environment for KIPP North Carolina students. They will work with staff and families to provide the highest quality of service to all students. The School Nurse will be a member of the school operations team.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Works to remove, modify, or reduce health-related barriers to learning
Provides well-student care, health care, first aid, immunizations, and assistance to students at their school; creates a comforting and nurturing environment for ill students
Provides daily, individual care to students, including but not limited to managing daily medications required by students, administering doctor prescribed medications to students and helping students with physical disabilities
Advises the Director of School Operations and other school staff as needed regarding initiatives, processes, and systems necessary to ensure a healthy school community
Builds emergency preparedness plans and trains all staff on them to ensure staff school-wide are ready for health emergencies
Communicates daily with families around student wellness and health concerns
Participates in necessary student health events that may occur on non-school days, e.g., New Student Registration
Performs screenings for scoliosis, vision, hearing, height, weight, and/or other conditions and make referrals and follow-up
Completes, updates, and maintains student records (accident reports, health records), and completes and submits reports; effectively and efficiently manages the systems for student health paperwork
Ensures 100% collection of student health documentation for incoming new students
Maintains physical student health files and ensures they are organized and up-to-date
Audits student health files annually
Transfers all health materials and necessary information for student transfers between campuses
Maintains the security of confidential information
Collects and maintains student incident forms, ensuring that all applicable parties have documented all pertinent details
Collaborates with school staff to create and maintain wellness programming to support healthy opportunities for students
Maintains all mandated COVID protocols and holds staff and students accountable to those health protocols.