Start Date: July 1, 2024

Requirements: Licensed Practical Nurse or Registered Nurse and one year comprehensive nursing experience. 

ROLE OF THE SCHOOL NURSE

School Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management services, and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.

National Association of School Nurses –http:// www.nasn.org

Kentucky Board of Nursing – http://www.kbn.ky.gov

Kentucky Department of Education – http://www.education.ky.gov