On-Call Licensed Practical Nurse 2

Vancouver, WA

Our Agency:

The Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth (CDHY) is an educational community and statewide resource committed to ensuring all deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington reach their full potential. Our agency offers a variety of services including:  academic, residential, outreach services, and professional development. CDHY celebrates all language experiences and deaf culture. We are committed to providing the best individualized learning experience for all students we serve.  Washington School for the Deaf is the campus school for the Center and offers educational programming for preschool through age 21 in Vancouver, WA. 

Our Staff:

Our employees are more than just workers. They are part of a community, network, and family. Each staff member serves as a role model to students. We're looking for people that can contribute, grow, think, and dream. We thrive in a culture that embraces diversity and rewards imagination. CDHY is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion! Our agency strives to create an inclusive and diverse learning community with emphasis on access, success, and equity by recruiting, retaining, and ensuring the success of diverse students, faculty, and staff. CDHY aims to build a community that values and respects one another by providing the best learning environment for faculty, staff, and student success.  

About the position:

This position provides direct health care services to students from grade Pre-K -- 12th.  The Washington School for the Deaf operates a Student Health Center Sunday through Friday. This position provides coverage on an on-call basis for day and swing shifts and shifts can be assigned with little notice. 

Duties

• Willing and able to work with little notice to cover for staff absences.
• Assess the physical and emotional health of students within the scope of school nurse practice.
• Initiate referrals for further diagnosis and treatment of identified health needs and provide follow-up.
• Consult and communicate health concerns that may impact learning to appropriate staff with parent and/or student consent.
• Contact parents and appropriate staff in the case of an emergency. 
• Assess and provide for the critical needs of students.
• Medication administration; keeps exceptional documentation.
• Provide report on PRN administered medication to delegated unlicensed professionals and oncoming nurse. 
• Communicate pertinent assessments to oncoming nurse at the end of shift. 
• Provide health counseling and crisis intervention and serve as an advocate for the health rights of students and as a professional liaison between the school, family, and health community. Communicate with parents as needed.
• Perform professional school nursing tasks as indicated and assigned, including emergency services.

• Ability to exercise sound nursing judgment, and always consider student safety while working autonomously.

   

Qualifications

Willing and able to work with little notice to cover for staff absences.

A valid Washington Licensed Practical Nurse license.

Willingness to deliver care in a preschool and in a special education and residential school setting.

Knowledge of: professional nursing principles and concepts; dynamics of interpersonal relationships; theory, science, and treatment techniques in a particular specialty area of practice such as mental health nursing, infection control, emergency response, etc.; available community resources; working with EMRs.

Ability to: use nursing principles, judgment, an