Reporting to the deputy/supervisor, principal, HR manager

HAAD Responsibilities and Roles of the School Nurse :

• General responsibilities
• Provides direct healthcare to student & staf
• Provides leadership for the provision of health service
• Provides screening and referral for health conditions
• Promotes a healthy school environment
• Promotes health
• Leadership role for health policies and programs
• Liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers
• The role of the school nurse encompasses both health and educational needs.

Direct care Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive & systematic health assessment
• Analyzes data to identify health problems
• Develops individualized healthcare plan and refers for further follow up (children with chronic conditions or special needs)
• Manages and updates plan and communicates it to concerned personnel
• Provides ongoing health information to students, parents and school authorities
• Plans, implements and supervises school health screening programs
• Directs immunization program
• Administers medications as per HAAD guidelines
• Documents care & maintains records
• Reports school health data (identifies health issues)

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Development of plans and training staff in emergencies and disasters
• Maintain confidentiality in communication and documentation
• Appropriate delegation of care (initial assessment, training, competency validation, supervision, and evaluation)

Screening and referral Responsibilities:

• Screening: vision, hearing, posture, body mass index, etc
• Refer in timely manner
• Recognize any deviation from normal growth development and behavior

Promote healthy school environment Responsibilities

• Provides physical and emotional safety Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases
• Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases Monitors immunization
• Monitors immunization Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school
• Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school Promote healthy school environment
• Promote healthy school environment
• Reports communicable diseases
• Assesses the physical environment (playground, indoor air quality, review illness or injury)
• Participates in developing a plan for prevention and management of hazards
• Assesses emotional environment of school (bullying, violence)

Training
Nursing Qualification
HAAD LICENSE
Minimum 1 year’s experience
Advanced life support
Concise English
Skills
Aware of and willing to promote the school’s health and safety policies and practices.
Purpose of School nursing
Facilitate positive student responses to normal development
Promote health and safety
Intervene with actual and potential health problems
Provide case management services
Collaborate with others to build student and family for adaptation, self management, self advocacy and learning
Able to lead a team of nurses and support staff.
Provide training for staff.
Accuracy in medicine provision and record keeping.
Able to be prepared for doctors’ visits /prepare for health authority inspections.
Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Tablet
Experience working with student or in a school environment.
Reporting to the deputy/supervisor, principal, HR manager
HAAD Responsibilities and Roles of the School Nurse :
General responsibilities
Provides direct healthcare to student & staf
Provides leadership for the provision of health service
Provides screening and referral for health conditions
Promotes a healthy school environment
Promotes health
Leadership role for health policies and programs
Liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers
The role of the school nurse encompasses both health and educational needs.
Direct care Responsibilities
Performs comprehensive & systematic health assessment
Analyzes data to identify health problems
Develops individualized healthcare plan and refers for further follow up (children with chronic conditions or special needs)
Manages and updates plan and communicates it to concerned personnel
Provides ongoing health information to students, parents and school authorities
Plans, implements and supervises school health screening programs
Directs immunization program
Administers medications as per HAAD guidelines
Documents care & maintains records
Reports school health data (identifies health issues)
Leadership Responsibilities:
Development of plans and training staff in emergencies and disasters
Maintain confidentiality in communication and documentation
Appropriate delegation of care (initial assessment, training, competency validation, supervision, and evaluation)
Screening and referral Responsibilities:
Screening: vision, hearing, posture, body mass index, etc
Refer in timely manner
Recognize any deviation from normal growth development and behavior
Promote healthy school environment Responsibilities
Provides physical and emotional safety Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases
Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases Monitors immunization
Monitors immunization Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school
Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school Promote healthy school environment
Promote healthy school environment
Reports communicable diseases
Assesses the physical environment (playground, indoor air quality, review illness or injury)
Participates in developing a plan for prevention and management of hazards
Assesses emotional environment of school (bullying, violence)