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About the Role

McDowell Friends School (MMFS) seeks a full-time School Nurse to support the mission of the school by ensuring the health and wellness of the school community. This role involves providing daily and ongoing health care, maintaining accurate health records, and collaborating with health staff.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children.
• Provides health assessments.
• Obtains an annual health history and updates as necessary.
• Observes the child for development and health patterns in making a nursing assessment.
• Identifies abnormal health findings.
• Develops and implements student health plans.
• 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 for students, parents, and school personnel.
• Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
• Maintains, evaluates, and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate the 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.
• Provides health education and anticipatory guidance.
• Provides direct health education as needed, 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.
• Manages and administers medication (including controlled substances) as prescribed by physician or designee.
• Monitors parameters and reports to parents, physicians, and teachers as necessary.
• Accompanies students and faculty on day trips.
• Ensures first aid bags are prepared with appropriate supplies, emergency medications and medications needed for trips.
• Completes accident reports for employees injured onsite timely.
• Order supplies for the nursing office as needed.
• Meets and communicates regularly with Senior School RN.
• Updates administration regarding emerging health issues for emergencies.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse in New York State.
• 2+ years of direct experience in a pediatric or urgent care setting.
• Familiarity with professional and technical emerging knowledge.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to multitask.
• Compassionate with good communication skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with school-age children (K-12) and external agencies.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to a new environment.
• Experience in the private education sector.
• Independent school system a plus.
• Ability to maintain the physical capacity required to navigate the school environment and to ensure the safety of the students.
• Moderate physical activity.
• Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds or standing and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day.
• Occasionally ascends/descends stairs to reach rooms in the building (one to five flights).
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of protective equipment.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases.
• Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Exposed to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries, illnesses), subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
• Handles emergency or crisis situations, may perform emergency care.
• Possess the ability to work accurately and in an organized fashion in a high-paced and often stressful environment.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Communication Proficiency
• Ethical decision-making to manage and evaluate patient care
• Confidentiality (HIPAA/FERPA)

Location

• downtown Brooklyn, NY

Work Type

• full-time
• 10-month position
• exempt

Experience Level

• 2+ years of direct experience in a pediatric or urgent care setting

Education Level

• Registered Nurse in New York State

Salary/Compensations

• $75,000 - $90,000

About the Company

• McDowell Friends School (MMFS) is located in downtown Brooklyn, NY.
• We encourage employees to bring their whole selves to work.
• We recognize, appreciate, celebrate, and honor our diverse community as we build an awareness of who each individual is and who we are collectively.
• Applicants who enhance the diversity of the school's faculty and administration are strongly encouraged to apply.

Equal Opportunity

• Employment at Mary McDowell Friends School is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, familial status, or any other category protected by the law.
• Mary McDowell Friends School’s policy of non-discrimination extends to all employment practices, including but not limited to hiring, transfer, promotion, training, compensation, benefits, layoffs, and termination.