Nurse - Days

Company: St. Paul's School
Location: Lowell
Posted on: July 12, 2021

Job Description:

St. Paul's is seeking registered nurse in our health center. This is an academic-year, non-exempt staff position:

Day shift (7:00 am to 4 p.m.) full time, includes every other weekend while school is in session.

The registered nurse provides quality nursing care to St. Paul's School students in both an outpatient and inpatient setting. This includes but is not limited to: conducting physical assessments, triage of students for scheduled appointments and walk-in appointments, communicating with parents, documenting in an electronic medical record, working collaboratively with the medical director, nurse practitioner and counselors, assisting the physician or nurse practitioner during consultations when appropriate, implementing nursing protocols and other medical/nursing orders for the treatment and care of students, preoperative and postoperative care, collecting specimens for diagnostic exams, provide health education, vaccine administration, and medication administration. Safe medication handling and storage are also an important aspect of this position.

Education, Training, and Experience: Must be currently licensed as a RN in the state of New Hampshire. Experience with adolescents or school nursing is a plus. CPR certification must be current.

Supervisory Responsibilities:  LNA

Language Skills:  Good oral and written communication skills.

Mathematical Skills:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Skills:  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.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:  Must be currently licensed as a Registered Nurse (R.N.) in the state of New Hampshire and have CPR certification current.

Physical Demands: 

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk, use hands to finger, handle and feel objects, and reach with hands and arms.  The employee is occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, and taste or smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

St. Paul's School is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity. St. Paul's School does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation, and complies with applicable laws for the protection of civil rights.

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