Purpose:  Provide health services to students, faculty, staff, and visitors,  including health education and preventive health practices. 

Essential Functions:

Nursing Services

• Administer temporary and emergency care procedures to ill and injured students, school personnel, and visitors in the MS/US Clinic.
• Serve as a health advocate for students.
• Administer medications to students according to policy and procedure.
• Notify parents of illness or accident and secure medical care for students in emergency cases (in event parents or emergency contact cannot be reached).
• Manage suspected and diagnosed cases of infectious diseases.
• Utilize EMR and other forms of electronic communication (gmail, sheets, docs, schoology, etc) to document student outcomes
• Part time hours are defined as three to five MS/US school days per week, 1100-1600. The schedule may be adjusted in collaboration with the MS/US Nurse. (Potential for up to 40 hours a week on occasion.) 

Consultation

• Serve as a health liaison between school, physicians, parents, and community.
• Assess student problems and make appropriate recommendations to parents relevant to unmet health needs when necessary.
• Participate in assessment and reporting of suspected child abuse.
• Communicate with division heads,  Executive Team, etc. as necessary regarding health services issues.
• Collaborate with parents, medical, and health care community to promote optimum delivery of health care services.
• Respect confidentiality of matters related to personal health problems of students and their families.
• Demonstrate clear, professional boundaries with the ESD community as a whole (students, staff, families)
• Interpret and utilize health information with good judgment.

Administration

• Assist with data entry and administrative tasks in collaboration with the MS/US Nurse as needed to update student medical records and health forms in the EMR throughout the year, to include immunization data entry.
• Maintain accurate, updated records of health information, using the EMR on MS/US students; per school policy.  (Electronic charting for all clinic visits.) 
• Report potential health/safety hazards to Risk Management, Facilities, Campus Safety and/or Division Head.
• Comply with all local, state, and federal guidelines concerning school health.   

Instruction

• Provide individual health counseling and instruction to the school community as needed.

Professional Development

• Maintain CPR certification 
• Maintain licensure with the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners.
• Maintain CEUs as required by the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners to renew license.
• Model behavior that is professional, ethical, and responsible.

Abuse Risk Management Standards:

• Adheres to policies related to boundaries with students. 
• Completes required abuse risk management training.
• Adheres to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising students. 
• Reports suspicious and inappropriate behaviors. 
• Follows mandated abuse reporting requirements. 

Working Environment:

• Maintain emotional control under stress.
• Exposure to bacteria and communicable diseases.
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling. 
• Generally, 40% sitting, 40% walking, and 20% standing. 

The Episcopal School of Dallas is a faith-centered, co-educational, college preparatory, independent day school with students age 3 – Grade 12. The policy of The Episcopal School of Dallas is to recruit, hire, train and promote employees without discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other status protected by law. In our recruitment practices, we strive to create a diverse school community whose members embrace the Mission and Vision Statement of the school.

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• Graduate of an accredited professional nursing education program (RN), BS in Nursing preferred
• Valid, current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Texas.
• CPR certified
• Knowledge of health appraisal to identify student health defects
• Independent assessment and clinical judgment skills
• Ability to deal with multi-disciplinary issues
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently with accuracy and efficiency, using multiple forms of technology
• Minimum two years nursing experience working with schools, adolescents or pediatrics preferred
• Must possess a calm and caring demeanor with a deep optimism about young people