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School Nurse
School Nurse
The school nurse serves as the health service expert, providing health care to students and staff and implementing interventions that addresses both actual and potential health and safety conditions. The school nurse collaborates with the school administrator to promote the health and academic success of students and serves as the liaison between, the school, community, and health care systems. This collaborative effort creates opportunities to build capacity for self-care, resilience, and learning.
The school nurse serves as the health service expert, providing health care to students and staff and implementing interventions that addresses both actual and potential health and safety conditions. The school nurse collaborates with the school administrator to promote the health and academic success of students and serves as the liaison between, the school, community, and health care systems. This collaborative effort creates opportunities to build capacity for self-care, resilience, and learning.
The school nurse’s responsibilities include:
The school nurse’s responsibilities include:
- Providing leadership in promoting personal and environmental health and safety by managing communicable diseases, monitoring immunizations, providing consultation and health-related education to students and staff to promote school health and academic success;
- Providing quality health care and intervening with actual and potential health problems through health screenings, health assessments and nursing interventions, and the development of healthcare and emergency care plans to enable students to safely and fully participate in school;
- Providing case management services to direct care for students with chronic health conditions, to ensure their safety, and to increase their access to the educational program; and
- Collaborating with school and community-based resources to reduce health-related barriers to student learning, improve access to healthcare, and develop school-community partnerships to support academic achievement and student success.
Request a meeting with the School Nurse (for all student of MC Perry Elementary School)
Request a meeting with the School Nurse (for all student of MC Perry Elementary School)
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