School Nurse at Makini High School

The main duties and responsibilities include:

• Assessing the health needs of the whole school community and developing a health plan, including Health and Safety Policies.
• Providing confidential health advice for individual children.
• Supporting, advising, counselling and referring children experiencing mental health problems, such as depression.
• Supporting vulnerable children by working alongside teachers and other professionals.
• Providing advice for parents, careers and school staff on childhood illnesses and the management and control of infectious diseases.
• Develops and implements a student health plan.
• Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel.
• Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students.
• Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students.
• Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses.
• Provides health education and anticipatory guidance
• Improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health. Ensure proper hygiene is fostered around the middle school section especially around the lavatories