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School Based Health Nurse
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Position Number: 5140628
Location: Waukesha, WI
Position Type: Health - Healthcare Administration

School Based Health Nurse

Description
School Based Health Nurse - Wellness Education Coordinator

Location: St. Augustine Preparatory Academy in Milwaukee

Hours: 1396 hours/year

Responsibilities

Apply the nursing process to systematically collect relevant data; identify problem areas and needs; make or facilitate decisions about service delivery; and evaluate the outcomes of service delivery within an educational setting.
Communication between Aug Prep, 16^th street medical clinic and School Health Based Nurses.
Conducts appropriate sick care and renders treatment as indicated.
Refers patients to 16^th street medical clinic as deemed necessary.
Performs emergency treatment in case of serious illness or injury.
Provides appropriate health teaching to patients and their families.
Maintains appropriate contact with community resources.
Participates in regular school health conferences as scheduled.
Consultants and collaborate with collaborating physician addressing medical issues presented by the students and in developing practice guidelines.
Responds to frequently encountered health issues, provides counseling and crisis intervention when required.
Consultants with teachers on health issues and provisions of clinical in-service education as needed.
Acts as a backup for ordering and maintaining all medical supplies including but not limited to medications, immunizations.
Supervises Carroll University nursing/health science students in the delivery of school-based nursing care.
Maintain professional development by attending seminars and training annually to build school nursing skills and evidence-based programs that will support student learning, health, safety, and development.
Other duties as assigned to assure the delivery of school health services.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

Current Registered Nurse licensure in the State of Wisconsin required.
Two years of recent nursing experience or 1 year of nursing experience plus directly applicable clinical experience, acquired through school.
Current CPR certification - Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers required.
Experience working as a nurse with the Hispanic population and in community or school settings preferred.

Special Requirements

Dual Language English/Spanish preferred
Experience working with the Hispanic culture.
The essential job duties of this position present risk of exposure to body fluids and blood borne pathogens.
Annual Bloodborne pathogen training is required.
Hepatitis B vaccine is strongly recommended and available at no charge at the health Center. Declination form must be signed if this vaccine is declined.
Candidates must be willing and able to support and advance the University mission.

Nursing Skills

Facilitate normal development and positive student responses to interventions.
Provide leadership in promoting health and safety, including a healthy environment.
Provide quality health care and intervene with actual and potential health problems.
Ability to comprehend and apply triage/ protocols to perform the above prescribed essential functions.
Utilize clinical judgement in providing school-based health care services.
Collaboration with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.
Act as a leader in delivery of care that preserves and protects student and family autonomy, dignity, privacy, and other rights sensitive to diversity in the school setting.
Ability to make sound clinical judgements.

Human Relations Skills:

Professional demeanor.
Ability to communicate effectively in a warm and confident manner in person, via phone, and through electronic communications with faculty, medical director, staff, students, and other members of the public.
Ability to concentrate and consistently produce accurate work while responding to frequent interruptions and changing priorities.
Ability to maintain confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA and FERPA regulations.
Self-motivation with sound judgment and decision-making capabilities are
Excellent attention to detail.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to work to deadlines and accomplish assigned objectives in a timely and organized fashion.
Candidates must have successful experience in working with culturally diverse persons and communities or have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to strengthening engagement of a diverse community and skill in communicating with a diverse population.
Candidates must be willing and able to support and advance the University mission.

Office Technology Skills:

Ability to utilize equipment, office software (i.e., Word, Excel, EHR) and web-based applications to meet the needs of staff, co-workers, and Carroll University.
Ability to utilize office equipment, prepare correspondence, reports, forms, mailings etc.
Willingness and ability to develop necessary skill with relevant tools and software as needed.

Physical and Environmental Requirements of the Position:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Must lift and/or move 25 to 50 pounds, and may assist, move, or restrain students with greater weight when required to assist students or intervene in student safety
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, lift, carry, move about, hear, and speak. Employee will be required to perform extensive work at a computer.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud on
It may be expected that the individual could be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials or illnesses during their duties.

Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at the Department of Public Safety, at 208 Wright St., Waukesha, WI 53186.

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