School Registered Nurse - Naperville

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review weekly care notes for quality of documentation, changes in patient condition requiring revisions to the Plan of Care.
• Case management: contact families, coordinate care, communicate changes in Plan of Care. Obtain physician's signature approval as necessary.
• Foster trusted relationships with children, families, peers and referral sources in schools
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques
• Observe patient, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies supervisor or physician of patient's condition and reaction to drugs, treatments and significant incidents
• Take and record patients' vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assess condition of patient
• Respond to life saving situations based on nursing standards, policies, procedures and protocol
• Document nursing history and physical assessment for assigned patients
• Initiate a patient education plan according to the individualized needs of the patient as prescribed by the physician and/or Agency policy including patient and family instruction
• Participate in the implementation and evaluation of patient care