The Wright City R-II School District has an opening for a part-time Registered Professional Nurse (RN) or Licenced Practical Nurse (LPN). This position is part-time 8:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. for the 2024-2025 school year.

Job Description

Position Title:      1:1 Part-Time Registered Professional Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Reports to:           Certified School Nurse, Special Education Director, and Process Coordinator

Requirements:     Current Missouri License as LPN or RN required.

Summary: The 1:1 Registered Professional Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse is responsible for the health care needs of the student(s) to whom the one-to-one nurse is assigned.  The one-to-one nurse may, at times, be required to ride school transportation with the student.  The one-to-one nurse will educate the school team, as necessary, regarding the specific healthcare issues affecting the student in the school and community environment.  The one-to-one nurse will provide additional information, as requested, to the Certified School Nurse to determine whether the health care needs of the student may affect his/her educational programming.

Core Competencies:

• Proficient communication skills
• Effective collaborative problem-solving ability
• Engages in continuous professional improvement
• Has job-specific skills required to meet essential job functions

Essential Job Functions:

• Care for students’ healthcare needs as specified in students’ individual healthcare plans, Individualized Education Plan (IEP), and emergency care plans as well as physician orders for medications and treatments 
• Have knowledge/documentation of students’ current and past health history information
• Communicate pertinent health information to educational team members on a need-to-know basis
• If traveling to and from school with the student, the nurse must be on time at the home to receive information necessary to provide continuity of care from home to school and allow time to provide pertinent information to the receiving caregiver upon return from school
• Maintain professional and accurate written and verbal communication regarding health care needs between home and school
• Responsible for documentation via daily nursing notes
• Maintain proper training for students’ various health needs to include, but not limited to lifting and transferring students, feeding, toileting
• Maintain supplies and have a system for securing all student health care items and educational materials used throughout the school day
• Responsible, under the guidance and supervision of the Certified School Nurse and professional educational team members, for implementing components of the student’s IEP as directed
• For all health-related questions and/or concerns, consult with the Certified School Nurse
• For all educational-related questions and/or concerns, consult with the appropriate professional educational team member (Process Coordinator or Special Education Director)
• Perform assigned tasks with the school nurse if the student is absent. 

Interpersonal Skills

Must possess strong, positive interpersonal skills including communication, ability to work with a group on problem solving, listening skills, positive attitude and deportment.

Language Skills

Ability to read, comprehend, and interpret documents, simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one or small group situations.

Mathematical Skills

Performs routine computations requiring a knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and/or percentages.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. 

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate and understand.  The employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit.  The employee is regularly required to use hands and arms to finger, handle, feel and reach as well as to talk and hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, stoop, reach, twist, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Regular attendance on the job is expected.

Terms of Employment:

Terms covering compensation, benefits, and working conditions are specified by the Board of Education’s policies, agreements and approvals. This is a nine month position.