About this 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.
The City of Boone is a great place to live, grow and play. Boone is voted #1 Affordable Small Town... Where You'd Actually Want to Live by Realtor.com.
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 ACTIVITIESAmount of Time
NoneUnder 1/31/3 to 2/3Over 2/3
StandX
WalkX
SitX
Use hands to finger, handle or feelX
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIESAmount of Time
NoneUnder 1/31/3 to 2/3Over 2/3
Reach with hands and armsX
Climb or balanceX
Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawlX
TalkX
HearX
TasteX
SmellX
WEIGHT AND FORCE DEMANDSAmount of Time
NoneUnder 1/31/3 to 2/3Over 2/3
Up to 10 poundsX
Up to 25 poundsX
Up to 50 poundsX
Up to 100 poundsX
More than 100 poundsX
MENTAL FUNCTIONSAmount of Time
NoneUnder 1/31/3 to 2/3Over 2/3
CompareX
AnalyzeX
CommunicateX
CopyX
CoordinateX
InstructX
ComputeX
SynthesizeX
EvaluateX
Use Interpersonal SkillsX
CompileX
NegotiateX
WORK ENVIRONMENTAmount of Time
NoneUnder 1/31/3 to 2/3Over 2/3
Wet or humid conditions (non-weather) X
Work near moving mechanical partsX
Work in high, precarious placesX
Fumes or airborne particlesX
Toxic or caustic chemicalsX
Outdoor weather conditionsX
Extreme cold (non-weather)X
Extreme heat (non-weather)X
Risk of electrical shockX
Work with explosivesX
Risk of radiationX
VibrationX
VISION DEMANDSREQUIRED 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 LEVELLevel of noise typical in the work environment for this job
Very quiet
QuietX
ModerateX
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.