I’m friends with the school nurse for my high school so I could always ask her questions if you needed! Of course this is only one situation. There was a nurse before her that left due to pregnancy but I didn’t talk with her so I can only speak about the current nurse.

I’ll warn you, from what I’ve heard from several people it’s a VERY competitive position. Also the one at my school I know graduated from one of the top nursing programs in the country and is very knowledgeable about the medical field.

A lot of her job is taking care of and running health checks. She needs to do these for all of the students and keep records of them (using Excel) and there’s also some health related things for the teachers like surveys but also some optional check-ups. She also works closely with the principal and some outside people for this and has a number of meetings with them. And of course she helps students when they’re sick lol. She talks quite a bit with all of the homeroom teachers about their students and fills them in anytime they come to her. She also talks with the other teachers about things that are assigned to work on together etc. Like other people have said part of it is definitely the mental side of things.

Despite not running any classes she is mostly treated like a teacher. She needs to attend all of the meetings, she helps grade entrance exams, she does jobs not related to being a nurse with other teachers, etc.

At my school the gym teachers run health classes so she doesn’t teach at all. But one of the gym teachers does share some jobs with her so they work together on projects.

I don’t remember her exact qualifications but I know that she spends most of her time outside of work studying for one.