A school nurse manages medication administration, care plans for chronic conditions, immunization compliance, emergency response, health screening and communication with families and providers. It is skilled professional work, and none of it is a lesson.
Most districts still evaluate nurses on a teaching rubric because it is the only one their system offers.
What we provide
A nurse-specific rubric on the same four-domain structure, in both the 2013 and 2022 editions.
The rubric derives from Danielson consulting work published by state education agencies. The 2022 edition is our own.
More than the rubric
Evidence can come from care documentation and observed practice rather than classroom visits. The rubric is not a document you print and fill in. It is built into software that runs the whole cycle: observations scheduled and recorded, rubric language inserted into the evaluation for you, self assessments and professional development plans running against the same rubric, and district reporting at the end of the year.
Plenty of districts already have the right rubric sitting in a filing cabinet. The work is in running the cycle with it. See how the software works → Talk with us about evaluating this role →
23 components across 4 domains, written for this role rather than borrowed from the classroom teacher rubric.
Planning and Preparation
Learning Environment
Nursing Practice
Principled Practice
Each component carries level-of-performance descriptors in all four levels, written in first, second and third person so self-assessments and evaluations read correctly from the same source. Ask us for the full rubric and we will walk you through it. See the other 13 roles
Tell us how your nurses are evaluated today, and we will show you the nurse rubric and how health services work is recorded. If we are not the right fit for your district, we will tell you that too. Talk with us about school nurse evaluation →