School Nurse Recrutment at Total Teachers Education

School Nurse Recrutment at Total Teachers Education

Total Teachers supports schools to attain and maintain the highest possible standards, Trading since 2010, Total Teachers utilises the latest thinking and innovation from countries with highly developed educational systems to engender creativity in the classroom, impacting upon school standards and maximising school improvement.

From its headquarters in the Abuja and Lagos, Total Teachers works with over 300 schools to develop this agenda and has developed an empathy and understanding of the specific requirements of Nigerian schools as they move from 20th Century methodologies to 21st Century methodologies with the learner at the centre.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Position: School Nurse

Location: Ibafo, Lagos

Job Description
This professional school nursing position is responsible for planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating school health services that:

• Maximize the quantity of in-class time by reducing the incidence of health related absenteeism,
• Eliminate or minimize health problems which impair learning
• Promote the highest degree of independent functioning possible
• Promote student, staff and community awareness of and participation in healthy behaviors

The school nurse will provide:
Standards of Care

• Assessment: Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the client's health or situation
• Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues
• Outcomes Identification: Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the client or situation
• Planning: Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes
• Implementation: Implements the identified plan through coordination of care, health teaching and health promotion and consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of others and effect change.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress towards attainment of outcomes

Standards of Professional Performance

• Quality of Practice: Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• Education: Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current school nursing practice
• Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluates one's own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations
• Collegiality: Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues
• Collaboration: Collaborates with the client, the family, school staff and others in the conduct of school nursing practice
• Ethics: Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice
• Research: Integrates research findings into practice
• Resource Utilization: Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice on the planning and delivery of school nursing services
• Leadership: Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession
• Program Management: Manages school health services

Requirements

• Auxiliary Nurses/Trained Nurses

Method of Application
All qualified candidates should send their CV's to: totalteach