School nurse vs mental health clinician

Differences between school nurse and mental health clinician duties and responsibilities

School nurse example responsibilities.

• Create and manage care plans for students with chronic health conditions (such as diabetes, food allergies and depression).
• Evaluate and manage post-exposure of blood-borne pathogens.
• Administer medications, evaluate prescription needs and facilitate prescription management, chemotherapy teaching, assess and manage chemotherapy side effects.
• Perform employee physical exams including hearing and spirometry as required.
• Provide patient care for PCI patients, mechanically-ventilate patients and an overall variety of critically ill patients.
• Perform drug testing, physicals, PFT and xrays.
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Mental health clinician example responsibilities.

• Work with children with autism and developmental impairment, providing weekly therapeutic sessions.
• Provide individual and group psychotherapy for adult population with goal of rehabilitation and community reintegration.
• Meet productivity standards comply with all DMH documentation standards and participate in on call crisis intervention rotation.
• Provide psychotherapy with empathy and concern as indicated by supervisory observation and feedback from patients, family and fellow team members.
• Provide clinical therapeutic services to patients, including individual and group therapy and coordination of treatment for participants with co-occurring disorders.
• Assess, diagnose, provide psychotherapy and rehabilitation for seriously mentally ill adults, children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbance.
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