Requisition No: 856246 

Agency: School for the Deaf & Blind

Working Title: REGISTERED NURSE (GRANT FUNDED) 48008504

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 48008504 

Salary:  $37,830.00 - $45,330.00 

Posting Closing Date: 07/22/2025 

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Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB)

Registered Nurse (Career Service)

Position Number 48008504

Department: Health Care Center

Grant Funded

Who are we?

FSDB is a state public school available at no cost to eligible pre-K and K-12 students who are deaf/hard of hearing, blind/visually impaired or deafblind, including boarding and transportation services. FSDB is nationally recognized for its comprehensive educational services, designed for the unique communication and accessibility needs of students. FSDB also provides educational outreach programs for children ages 0-5 and their families. The FSDB experience provides students with the edge to do more, be more, and achieve more.

 

How you will make an impact

The incumbent of this position is responsible for providing age/special needs appropriate nursing care to school age student patients ranging from preschool to 22 years of age, including assessment of student patient needs specific to their age. Nursing care is planned, interventions are performed to assure those needs are met and evaluated for effectiveness of nursing care. Health care services are provided according to physician orders, nursing clinical guidelines, FSDB and HCC policies and procedure.

• Primary responsibility of this position is to review and assess medical records of students that are seeking admission to the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. Prioritizes and collects data based on the student’s application and medical records to develop a comprehensive history of personal and health factors, medical treatment, and prior treatment. Collects data from multiple sources using a variety of methods. Collaborates with the student, parents, medical providers, school districts and admission team members in the collection process and data analysis. Assures that the assessment process is systematic and ongoing. Bases data collection on clinical judgment. Documents the database in synthesized, prioritized, and retrievable form. Ensures that medical data in entered into school’s student data management system for immunization records, family demographic contacts and medical provider information. Assign follow-up care coordination assessments to HCC nursing staff for all student that attend FSDB. Coordinates the Medical Directors weekly Pediatric Development Clinic (PDC) to monitor students that require behavior management with school and outside medical providers. This requires gathering data from school providers, medication managements, parent updates and communication with home primary care or specialty care physician.
• Serves as a health care liaison among the student, nurse, physician, family, academic and residential staff to provide a continuum of care for the student. Promotes student’s personal and social integration. Reinforces healthy behaviors and interaction patterns and helps modify or discontinue unhealthy ones. Integrates patient teaching into every student encounter. Communicates in a timely manner with family, academic and residential staff following all student encounters and prior to initiation of all medical treatments and interventions. Establishes and conducts health care in-service and patient teaching for students, staff, and families. Continually evaluates student progress. Documents patient teaching interventions, communication, crisis intervention, medication education, behavior modification. Develops nursing diagnosis and problem statements from data. Develops nursing diagnosis based on accepted classification systems. Discusses and verifies nursing diagnoses and risk factors with patient. Assures that the nursing diagnoses and clinical impressions are documented in a manner that facilitates the identification of patient outcomes and their use in the plan of care. Derives outcome from nursing diagnosis. Assures that outcomes are student-oriented, evidence based, therapeutically sound, realistic, attainable, and cost-effective. Documents outcomes as measurable goals. Assist with ACU/TCU coverage when nursing staff are low to ensure student to nurse ratios are maintained.
• Other related duties.

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Considerable knowledge of principles and practices of nursing for the school aged child and special needs child;
• Ability to utilize the nursing process and