Special Needs School Nurse

Morning Star Catholic School is seeking to hire a full-time Special Needs School Nurse as soon as possible. The Registered School Nurse provides direct clinical services, consultation, educational programming, and outreach to the campus community consistent with the mission of Morning Star Catholic School.Basic Functions:  An understanding that MSC is a Catholic School and an appreciation and commitment to uphold the Catholic spiritual and intellectual traditions as they are the foundation of all things at the school.Follow Federal, State, and local guidelines related to COVID-9 and identify positive cases on campus. Oversee contact tracing for exposed faculty, staff, and students in conjunction with Orange County Epidemiology to reduce COVID transmission to the overall community.Provide health services to strengthen and facilitate the educational process by modifying or removing health-related barriers to learning in the individual students.Provide health and medical services for students with Special Health Care Needs; needing assistance in independent functioning, toileting, feeding, etc.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. Position Responsibilities: This is not an exhaustive list and other responsibilities may be assigned as needed. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children.Provides health assessments.Obtains a health history.Observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment.Identifies abnormal health findings. Develops and implements a student health plan.Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel.Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.Plans and implements school health management protocols.Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses.Promotes and assists in the control of communicable diseases in conjunction with Orange County Health Department Epidemiology.Provides health education and anticipatory guidance.Provides direct health education, and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health.Participates 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.Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction.Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community.Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers. Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices.Provides consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school.Where applicable, participates in student academic plan development.