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RED OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT Red Oak Commmunity School Nurse in Red Oak, Iowa
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.