Birch Agency has excellent job opportunities for School Nurses throughout the United States.  Our School Nurses support student success by providing health care through assessment, intervention, and follow-up within the school setting.  We offer a wide range of school nursing jobs with the opportunity to work with the general education and/or special education population.  Many of our school nurses provide one-on-one services to high needs and medically fragile students or may provide general healthcare services to the entire school.

Opportunities Available:

Birch Agency offers full-time, part-time and substitute School Nurse job opportunities in public, private and charter schools.

Services provided by School Nurse

• Develop emergency care plans for students with life-threatening health conditions such as severe allergies to peanuts or bee stings, severe asthma or diabetic students with insulin reactions.
• Oversee administering medications to students and care for ill students
• Responsible for the health assessment of students being evaluated to receive special education services
• Organizing state-mandated vision and hearing screening.
• Stay abreast of possible communicable disease outbreaks
• Serve as a liaison between the school, the home, and medical or other community resources
• Provide health education to students
• Provides daily care to students with extensive physical needs
• Toileting
• Transporting students to and from class
• Assisting in transportation from bus to class
• Catheterization
• Suctioning, tube feeding, and positioning
• Assess and address health concerns of students
• Take Vitals
• Provide basic aide
• Provide Illness and injury assessments
• Prepare appropriately for emergency/natural disaster procedures and evacuation
• Communicate with students, school staff, caregivers, and family members
• Test auditory and visual health
• Maintains student health equipment
• Effectively and efficiently manages the systems for student health paperwork

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing/LPN Certification
• State Licensure/Certification
• First Aid and CPR Training/Certification
• School Nurse Certification by Board of Education is required in some states
• Pediatric experience is required
• Trach/ventilator experience required for some positions