What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Practical Nurse- Floater position at TrulyHired?
We are deeply committed to an inclusive curriculum and school community that reflects the diversity of our student population. We strive to have the highest quality educators and encourage applications from candidates representing a broad range of skills and diverse backgrounds. We seek candidates who are dedicated to inclusion and have a clear interest in being part of the richness of diversity that the New Bedford Public Schools community has to offer. LPN will work as an agent of the New Bedford Board of Health to oversee all aspects of Childhood Immunization Clinics including but not limited to ordering vaccines through the MIIS Vaccine Management Module, maintaining proper storage and transportation of vaccines, and administering vaccines and documenting in the Massachusetts Immunization Information System. Knowledge of the Massachusetts School Immunization Requirements preferred. PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES: These responsibilities may include but are not limited to •Provide general nursing care to students with disabilities by working in a collaborative role with other special education and health care staff to ensure a high quality of personalized care and instruction. •Promote positive safety practices both within and outside of school buildings. •Carry out communicable disease prevention and infection control based on current guidelines for universal precautions, prevention of bloodborne pathogens exposure and hazardous medical waste disposal. •Provide medically prescribed interventions including medication administration (Based on State and Local Regulations), nursing procedures, and assists with nursing care to students on a daily basis. •Maintain comprehensive health records of all interventions provided to individually assigned students. •To be directly responsible to the building nurse for all activities related to medical concerns. •Assist with any health related tasks as deemed necessary by the Supervisor of Nursing and/or the building school nurse, with individual students or in the building's health office. •To be directly responsible to the classroom teacher for all activities related to instruction, •Assist the classroom teacher in carrying out the goals and objectives of student's I.E.P.'s. •To confer with parents of special education students as needed with attendance at individual student's I.E.P. meetings if requested to attend. • To assist individual special education students with travel to and from school if needed.
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