Bargaining Unit: ACE
Work Year: 180 days per year
Work Day: 8 hours per day
FTE: Full time, 1.0 FTE
Range: ACE D, $44,616.60 - $56,941.20, DOE

Job Summary
The Registered Nurse assesses and assists in providing for health and nursing needs of Anchorage School District students. The nurse conducts a continuous assessment of the student’s health and development status; develops and executes a plan of care in coordination with the student’s family and physician and the school staff. The nurse may provide clinical supervision to both licensed and unlicensed personnel. The position has a retirement association with the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS).
 
Job Requirements
The following are required:

1. A state of Alaska registered nurse license certification or a state of AK temporary nursing license and must pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) within 120 days of hire and receive a permanent nursing license certification; current BLS card.
2. Must be able to apply the standards of clinical nursing practice as the basis for accountability and direction. The standards of care include assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
3. Must be able to apply a clinical knowledge base for decision-making in nursing and intervene in serious situations that arise suddenly and threaten the life or welfare of a student.
4. Must be able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents, and staff.
5. Must be able to use effective expressive and receptive verbal skills, reflective of both articulate speech and good listening skills.

The following is preferred:

1. Two years of experience as a registered nurse.

Essential Job Functions

1. Protects and promotes student health, facilitates optimal development, and advances academic success.
2. Provides high quality student-centered care.
3. Collects and analyzes pertinent data and information relative to the student’s health or the situation to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
4. Identifies expected outcomes for a nursing plan individualized to the student or the situation.
5. Develops, implements and evaluates a nursing plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
6. Coordinates care delivery with parents, staff and providers
7. Provides nursing services including:
   1. Interpreting health history and develop appropriate care plan
   2. Immunization status review
   3. Treatments
   4. Medication
   5. Diabetes and seizure management
   6. Health counseling
   7. Linkage with community providers
   8. Health promotion
   9. Injury and disease prevention, intervention, and education
8. Provides skilled nursing procedures within the standards of clinical nursing practice:
   1. Feeding: nasogastric feeding, gastrostomy feeding, nasogastric tube insertion, nasogastric tube removal, gastrostomy tube reinsertion, machine troubleshooting and maintenance for continuous pump feeding.
   2. Catheterization: clean intermittent catheterization, sterile catheterization, Crede, external catheter care, and care of indwelling catheter.
   3. Medical Support Systems: ventricular peritoneal shunt, mechanical ventilator, phrenic nerve pacing, continuous and intermittent oxygen, medical machine troubleshooting and maintenance.
   4. Medications: oral, injection, intravenous, epi-pen allergy kit, inhalation, topical, per nasogastric tube, per gastrostomy tube, per nebulizer, and special medication mixing procedures.
   5. Ostomies: ostomy care, and ostomy irrigation.
   6. Respiratory Assistance: postural drainage, percussion, pharyngeal and tracheotomy suctioning, tracheotomy tube replacement, tracheotomy care, peak flow meter, and manual bag resuscitation.
   7. Screenings: monitors vital signs.
   8. Specimen Testing: blood glucose.
   9. Other Healthcare Procedures: seizure monitoring, soaks, dressings, position changes for skin pressure releases, and range of motion.
   10. Development of Protocols: health care plans, treatment and emergency protocols with physician and school nurse consultation.

The Anchorage School District is an equal employment opportunity employer.

If you would like to apply, please use this link: https://www.applitrack.com/asd/onlineapp/default.aspx?Category=Nurse%3a+Registered+Nurse