Nurse
at Falcon British Nursery School
Abu Dhabi, أبو ظبي, United Arab Emirates -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 29 Oct, 2024 | Not Specified | 29 Jul, 2024 | 1 year(s) or above | Learning,Training,Record Keeping,Excel,Medicine,School Nursing,Nurses,Health,Wellbeing,Clinic,Microsoft Word,Paper,Self Management,Dc,Case Management Services,Adaptation | No | No |
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Description:
SKILLS
- Aware of and willing to promote the school’s health and safety policies and practices.
- Purpose of School nursing
- Facilitate positive student responses to normal development
- Promote health and safety
- Intervene with actual and potential health problems
- Provide case management services
- Collaborate with others to build student and family for adaptation, self management, self advocacy and learning
- Able to lead a team of nurses and support staff.
- Provide training for staff.
- Accuracy in medicine provision and record keeping.
- Able to be prepared for doctors’ visits /prepare for health authority inspections.
- Ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Tablet
Experience working with student or in a school environment.
Responsibilities:
HAAD Responsibilities and Roles of the School Nurse :
- General responsibilities
- Provides direct healthcare to student & staf
- Provides leadership for the provision of health service
- Provides screening and referral for health conditions
- Promotes a healthy school environment
- Promotes health
- Leadership role for health policies and programs
- Liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers
- The role of the school nurse encompasses both health and educational needs
Direct care Responsibilities
- Performs comprehensive & systematic health assessment
- Analyzes data to identify health problems
- Develops individualized healthcare plan and refers for further follow up (children with chronic conditions or special needs)
- Manages and updates plan and communicates it to concerned personnel
- Provides ongoing health information to students, parents and school authorities
- Plans, implements and supervises school health screening programs
- Directs immunization program
- Administers medications as per HAAD guidelines
- Documents care & maintains records
- Reports school health data (identifies health issues
Leadership Responsibilities:
- Development of plans and training staff in emergencies and disasters
- Maintain confidentiality in communication and documentation
- Appropriate delegation of care (initial assessment, training, competency validation, supervision, and evaluation
Screening and referral Responsibilities:
- Screening: vision, hearing, posture, body mass index, etc
- Refer in timely manner
- Recognize any deviation from normal growth development and behavio
Promote healthy school environment Responsibilities
- Provides physical and emotional safety Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases
- Implement precaution against blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases Monitors immunization
- Monitors immunization Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school
- Assures appropriate exclusion and re-entry into school Promote healthy school environment
- Promote healthy school environment
- Reports communicable diseases
- Assesses the physical environment (playground, indoor air quality, review illness or injury)
- Participates in developing a plan for prevention and management of hazards
- Assesses emotional environment of school (bullying, violence
Promotes Health Responsibilities
- Provides health education to students, parents, teachers & communities
- Assists in development of health education curriculum
- Promotes health in school health councils
- Collaborates with staff, students, parents and other professionals to assess health needs and develop a school health plan
- Prepares statistical reports on health promotion
- Promotes Health activities for HAAD and ADEC and other government entitie
Leadership for health policies and programs Responsibilities
- Health expert within school system
- Leader in development and evaluation of school health policies, procedures including Health promotion and protection
- Coordinates school health program
- School wellness policies
- Crisis / disaster management
- Emergency medical condition management
- Mental health protection and intervention
- Acute illness management
- Infectious disease prevention and management
- Documents and prepares report (legal, regulatory and policy requirements)
- Utilizes critical thinking, time management, problem solving skills in management of care
- Adapts leadership and management style to changing circumstances
- Engages in research and evaluation of school health services
- Acts as change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices.
- Serves as liaison between school, home and community
- establish working relationship with pediatricians to ensure individualized health plans are executed
- communicates with family through phone written communication
- communicates with community health providers and agencies ensuring confidentiality
- Develops community partnerships to promote health of communit
Coordinate and collaborate responsibilities
- Act as resource person in promoting health
- Maintains supplies and equipment in the school clinic according to HAAD requirements for nursery schools
- Ensures accessibility of school health services to all student and staff
- Keeps daily log (DC app or paper) to list students who visit the nurses office or needs special attentio
Accountability Responsibilities
- Accepts accountability for own actions and decision making
- Practices within the scope of practice
- Maintains competency
- Seeks guidance in situations beyond scope of practice
- Practices within the legal framework of UAE.
- Maintains current license to practice
- Practices in accordance with national, jurisdictional legislations
- Demonstrates knowledge and follows the policies and procedures
- Follows the UAE nursing code of conduct
- Advocates protection of human rights and reports any violation in accordance with jurisdiction and code of conduc
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:1.0Max:6.0 year(s)
Education Management
Teaching / Education
Education, Teaching
Graduate
Proficient
1
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates