Our School Nurses provide onsite, accessible, free healthcare services for our students. From emergency care, to physical, mental, emotional and social health assessment and treatment. We work closely with our students and families, school psychologists, school physio, school staff and secondary health services to provide excellent, youth focused nursing care to best support our students. This is a free and confidential service. Bookings can be made via our online booking system (see below) – if no suitable appointment time is available, please contact us via email on nurse@rangiruru.school.nz.
Contacts
Teams: (Karena Lyth and Julia Roberts)
Email: nurse@rangiruru.school.nz
Hours (Term time only)
Monday: 8:45am – 4pm (Karena and Julia)
Tuesday: 8:45am – 2:45pm (Julia)
Wednesday: 8:45am – 2:45pm (Karena)
Thursday: 8:45am – 2:45pm (Karena)
Friday: 7:45am – 2:45pm (Julia)
Services
- Illness and injury triage and monitoring
- Wound care
- Healthy Lifestyle Education (including nutrition and physical activity)
- Healthy sleep habits
- Sexual health (including STI screening and self-swabs / Emergency Contraceptive Pill / Contraceptive advice)
- Smoking and Vaping Cessation
- Immunisation discussion/advice
- Monitor and support for chronic medical conditions
- Support with mental health / low mood / stress / anxiety
- New boarder wellbeing checks and general student wellbeing screens
- Concussion support
- General discussions / chats about anything and refer to the applicable person or service
Book an Appointment
There are no charges for school nurse appointments. If you are being seen without an appointment, please go via the office
You can find the nurses office in the boarding house near reception.