School Nurse

School Nurse (Education) Legacy Early College Overview

Legacy Early College is a K4-12 public charter school that originated through the vision of businessman William Brown in 2009 with an unwavering focus on To and Through College at every grade level. Legacy’s model combines academics, nutrition, physical fitness, and mental health. In addition to our college-driven academic standards, meals are made on site, scholars participate in PE every day, and Social-Emotional Literacy is integrated into the culture and curriculum.

We currently occupy the site of the historic Parker High School and the former Greenville County Fine Arts Center.

Legacy Early College (Legacy) is seeking a talented and committed School Nurse for hire for the school year. Legacy views School Nurses as leaders in the school community who oversee all school health policies and programs. It is up to School Nurses to provide expertise and oversight of school health services and to promote health education. School nurses advocate for students’ physical, emotional, mental, and social health because healthy children are successful learners.

• Assesses and evaluates scholars’ health and developmental status through appropriate screening techniques.
• Directs initial screening programs in schools served and provides secondary screening prior to referral.
• Assumes responsibility for selecting and referring students identified by the screening process as needing medical or other care.
• Compiles information including observations, appropriate medical records, and screening results.
• Interprets the data to students, their families, and school personnel.
• Monitors pupil immunizations as required by law.
• Screens for vision, dental, hearing, blood pressure, growth, and scoliosis.
• Performs other routine screening procedures.
• Performs health appraisal for students served by Public Law 94-142.
• Maintains health records and uses accumulated information to initiate preventive, remedial, or rehabilitative action.
• Maintains and records screening data on the cumulative health record.
• Participates in health counseling, both planned and unplanned, with individuals and groups to assist the students in improving their health status and to promote self-care, decision-making, and wellness behavior.
• Interprets nursing assessments and medical evaluations to students, their families, and school personnel.
• Performs follow-up nursing care on children with identified health needs.
• Makes appropriate community and health care referrals when needed.
• Participates in staffing for student placement when requested.
• Provides feedback to schools on the screening program conducted.
• Incorporates health teaching in all activities performed.
• Provides teachers with up-to-date, accurate resource materials for classroom instruction when requested.
• Assists parents to learn about health problems and aspects of parental responsibility for their children’s health care and maintenance.
• Assists with orientation, training, and supervision for new health personnel.
• Serves as health consultant by providing relevant health instruction, counseling, and guidance to students, school personnel, parents, and others on subjects such as first aid and emergency care procedures, CPR training, and specific health problems for in-service or school parent programs.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates a method of providing each school’s first aid and emergency care.
• Assumes responsibility for management of the health room, to include ordering supplies and equipment.
• Administers first aid, care, and comfort to ill or injured students as stipulated by written school health policies and procedures, when available.
• Maintains daily log of all children seen for health-related problems.
• Encourages the school to maintain a daily log of all children reported to the health room.
• Assists in identifying and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.
• Serves as liaison between the school, the home, private physicians, health and social agencies, and other community resources to assure appropriate utilization of all available resources for student health needs.
• Maintains up-to-date and accurate…