3157.0 School Nursing: Professional Issues in School Health

Monday, October 27, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
Professional Issues in School Health Nursing will include presentations (1) on the Pennsylvania School Nurses’ all Hazards Disaster Preparedness Training Program support for the development of a national curriculum on triage for school nurses; (2) results from a study undertaken to investigate the delivery of nursing care in US schools; (3) description of the “Coordinated School Health Program Model” used to develop a program within a troubled, racially diverse neighborhood to extend the efforts of the school nurse to improve the health and well-being of students; and (4) the effects of a community outreach school-based model to extend health care insurance coverage to children of low-income families in Oregon.
Session Objectives: LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the conclusion of this presentation participants will be able to (1) Describe the Pennsylvania School Nurses’ all Hazards Disaster Preparedness Training Program support for the development of a national curriculum on triage for school nurses; (2) Discuss the implications of a study done to investigate the delivery of nursing care in US schools; (3) Identify the components of the “Coordinated School Health Program Model ” employed to develop a program within a troubled, racially diverse neighborhood to extend the efforts of the school nurse to improve the health and well-being of students; and (4) Describe a school- based community-outreach program designed to extend health care insurance to students from low-income households.
Moderator:

10:30 AM
Training outcomes from preparing a school nurse workforce for all hazards
Molly Eggleston, MPH, CHES, CPH, Stefanie P. Junker, MPH and Ellen Ahwesh, MA
10:50 AM
School nursing services in United States: Where are we? Where do we need to go?
Martha Dewey Bergren, DNS RN CSN FNASN, Amy Garcia, MSN, RN and Donna Mazyck, MS, RN, NCSN
11:10 AM
Coordinated School Health Program Model – Working Together for a Healthy Community
Penny Killian, RN, MSN, MHPNP and Robert Carrozza, MSN RN APNC

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Organized by: School Health Education and Services
Endorsed by: Public Health Nursing, Vision Care Section

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing