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Substitute School Nurse

Boone, IA

About the role

District Wide Substitute Nurse Position

The Boone Community School District has made a significant effort to live our motto Expect the Best...Achieve Success.

Boone Community School District is located 10 minutes west of Ames and roughly 1 hour north of the Des Moines Metro Area. Our staff work daily to Value the Uniqueness of All, Give a Fresh Start Each Day, Partner with Families, Develop Positive Character, and Ensure Learning. We have earned a reputation for being an innovative and progressive school district that includes $43+million in building projects completed in the fall of 2024. This includes a Pre-K-1st grade early childhood learning center and a multipurpose education center.
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As needed nurse within the Boone School District

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

Registered Nurse License
BOEE Statement of Professional Recognition

TECHNICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:

Highly developed oral and written communication skills.
Ability to build relationships effectively and professionally with families and students.
Experience developing and implementing curriculum.
Physical ability to handle frequent sitting, stooping, bending, pushing, pulling, and moving throughout the room.
Proven ability to maintain a safe and studious classroom environment.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement age-appropriate curriculum.
Ability to collaborate within the school and instructional setting.
Demonstrated desire to be a life-long learner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Listed below are the essential tasks required for this job.

Job Tasks Descriptions

1. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children

2. Provides health assessments

3. Provides health assessments, observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment, and identifies abnormal health findings

4. Develops and implements a student health plan

5. Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel

6. Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through.

7. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies

8. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students

9. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students

10. Plans and implements school health management protocols

11. Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses

12. Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health

13. 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

14. Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction

15. Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community

16. Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers

17. 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 district.

18. Where applicable, participates in the IEP plan development

19. Assist with the Medicaid claiming process and do claiming on qualified students

20. Perform other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES	Amount of Time
None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Stand	X
Walk	X
Sit	X
Use hands to finger, handle or feel	X

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES	Amount of Time
None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Reach with hands and arms	X
Climb or balance	X
Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl	X
Talk	X
Hear	X
Taste	X
Smell	X

WEIGHT AND FORCE DEMANDS	Amount of Time
None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Up to 10 pounds	X
Up to 25 pounds	X
Up to 50 pounds	X
Up to 100 pounds	X
More than 100 pounds	X

MENTAL FUNCTIONS	Amount of Time
None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Compare	X
Analyze	X
Communicate	X
Copy	X
Coordinate	X
Instruct	X
Compute	X
Synthesize	X
Evaluate	X
Use Interpersonal Skills	X
Compile	X
Negotiate	X

WORK ENVIRONMENT	Amount of Time
None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Wet or humid conditions (non-weather)	X
Work near moving mechanical parts	X
Work in high, precarious places	X
Fumes or airborne particles	X
Toxic or caustic chemicals	X
Outdoor weather conditions	X
Extreme cold (non-weather)	X
Extreme heat (non-weather)	X
Risk of electrical shock	X
Work with explosives	X
Risk of radiation	X
Vibration	X

VISION DEMANDS	REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
No special vision requirements
Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)	X
Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)	X
Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
Peripheral vision
Depth perception
Ability to adjust focus

NOISE LEVEL	Level of noise typical in the work environment for this job
Very quiet
Quiet	X
Moderate	X
Loud
Very loud

Boone Community School District is an equal opportunity employer. If you have questions or a grievance, contact the BCSD Equity Coordinator Mrs. Jill Janes, [email protected], at BCSD, 500 7th Street, Boone, Iowa 50036; (515) 433-0750.