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Empowering Educational Success: The Impact of School Nurses

Discover why every child deserves access to a school nurse and how school nurses play a vital role in student achievement. From providing direct care to coordinating health services and promoting wellness programming, school nurses ensure students stay healthy and ready to learn. Learn about the challenges they face and their future goals, including improving nutrition and fitness initiatives. Find out how you can support healthy students for a successful educational journey.

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Empowering Educational Success: The Impact of School Nurses

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  1. 2013 - 2014School NurseReport Every child deserves a school nurse

  2. The Value of a School Nurse Why is it important that our students have access to a school nurse?

  3. School nurses play a powerful role in educational achievement of students so that students can: • Come to school • Stay in school • Be ready to learn • Be safe

  4. School Health Services • Current Responsibilities: • Provides and Directs care for all students and staff • Develops IHP’s and emergency care plans, provides training to staff according to these plans • Coordinates, supervises and provides training for medication administration

  5. School Health Services • Current Responsibilities (cont.) • Assists with the coordination of CPR/First Aid training for Code Blue Teams • Performs health screenings; oversee wellness programming; participate in district wellness committee • Bill third party payers for qualified services

  6. Total Student Visits 2013-2014

  7. Health Office Visits

  8. Total Medications Administered

  9. Total Treatments Administered • Catherizations • 2 students –daily and twice daily • Tube feedings • 3 students- Continuous throughout the day • Blood Glucose Monitoring • 11 students- total of 3,150 checks

  10. Classroom Education * Tomorrow’s Hope Funding

  11. Special Health Conditions In 2012 – 2013, about 25 % of our student population had a health alert that required nursing assessment, intervention, follow up, and/or support.

  12. Nursing Laws • Chapter 121.03 “Standard G” • Every school district board shall provide Emergency Nursing Services • Reviewed and evaluated by board at least annually • Chapter 441: WI Nurse Practice Act • Defines the practice of nursing

  13. Nursing Laws • Chapter N 6 • Standards of Practice for Registered Nurses • Defines the nursing process- • Assessment; Planning; Intervention; and Evaluation • Supervision • In the supervision and direction of delegated nursing acts an RN shall: • Delegate task • Provide direction and assistance • Observe and monitor • Evaluate the effectiveness

  14. Challenges to Health Services • Increasing complexity of student needs • Increased concerns surrounding mental health • Lack of time to provide essential: • Planning for student health needs • Case management • Collaboration with professionals • Adequate documentation • Scheduling vital training for staff • Training enhancement opportunities

  15. School Health Services • Future Goals: • Wellness programming (staff/student) • Obesity-10% of WI students are obese (CDC, 2011) • Nutrition • Exercise • Fitness Gram software/PE teacher • FHC Cerner Challenges- Increase Participation • Rock the Walk- step program in Fall- 24 district employees participated- Total of 8,524,948 steps with the overall stepper for the team coming from SDFA! • Slim Down Challenge- Weight loss teams- Spring- 74 district employees participated on 19 different teams- SDFA had the #1 overall “Loser” for the whole challenge! 10 teams made it to the finish! • Policy and Procedure Review • Improve IHP involvement

  16. What can you do? • Promote and nurture the vision that healthy students + healthy school = educational success • Encourage school, family and community in strengthening strategies that remove barriers to learning • Encourage development of school policies and procedures that support healthy students who are ready-to-learn

  17. Healthy children learn better School nurses make it happen

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