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Texas Board of Nursing Delegation Task Force Survey
The TSNO School Health Issues Committee is privileged to participate in the upcoming Texas Board of Nursing Delegation Task Force. Your input into this process is critical as we interface with the BON about potential rule changes. Please take 5 minutes or less to complete the survey found at this link.
Register now for the 32nd Annual School Health Conference
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New NASN Diabetes Resources
School Nurses - Just a reminder of NASN Diabetes Resources available for your practice:
1. Diabetes in Children – NASN webpage www.nasn.org/ToolsResources/DiabetesinChildren
2. Online Continuing Education – Diabetes Management Series (free to members - $15 non-members) 1.0 CNE Each - Insulin Update, Introduction to Carbohydrate Counting.
www.nasn.org/ContinuingEducation/OnlineContinuingEducation
3. New Publication - Managing Diabetes at School: Tools for the School Nurse – ($38 for members - $48 for non-members). This 220 page spiral manual is accompanied by a disc containing forms in PDF and WORD formats, and is adapted from NASN’s H.A.N.D.S. (Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in School) program. It includes 3 new IHPs, procedures, skills checklists, and documentation forms.
4. School Health Office Documentation Record (SHODR) Forms -packs of 10 ($6 for members - $11 for non-members) – This tri-fold form on heavy stock paper is designed to be a comprehensive documentation tool for a student’s daily diabetes management. When you purchase the Tools for the School Nurse publication you receive 2 SHODR forms. Purchase packs of 10 for additional students.
Link to NASN bookstore: portal.nasn.org/members_online/members/createorder.asp?
5. Live Workshop for School Nurses : H.A.N.D.S. Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in School – Plan now to offer H.A.N.D.S. at your winter/ spring conferences.
www.nasn.org/ContinuingEducation/LiveContinuingEducationPrograms/HANDS
If you have attended H.A.N.D.S. in the past, check for the program updates and new participant resources.
www.nasn.org/ToolsResources/DiabetesinChildren
6. NASN School Nurse bimonthly publication (Free to NASN members) – Diabetes article in every issue from national diabetes experts (National Diabetes Education Program)
7. Not a member? Join today so you don’t miss out on this valuable information.
www.nasn.org/Home/Becomeamember
Have a great school year!
Please send us your contact information updates!
Many of the emails that TSNO has been sending out have come back as undeliverable, and you are not receiving them. If you have had ANY changes to your contact information (name, email address, etc) please email Francis Beckendorf at fbeck406@aol.com and she will make the changes. We want you to know about all the great things TSNO is doing!
Heath Services Annual Report Example
Hello fellow nurses,
In this time of uncertainty and budget cuts, I wanted to share with you a way you could show your school board, PTA, administrators, etc. just what school nurses accomplish in the school and for the children of Texas.
Several years ago I shared with TSNO the annual report our district nurses submit annually to our school board. This report has been on our website for several years. I am thrilled to put the latest and improved edition on the website that includes when an RN made the difference…stories from the clinics and the future of school health services. View here for the report.
More cuts are expected next year. We must keep awareness of school nurses’ achievements and worth in the forefront.
Continue to sparkle nurses, sparkle!
Kathy Powell RN, BSN, MSCHA, NCSN
President of Texas School Nurses Organization
Sunny Thomas Memorial Award
The Sunny Thomas Memorial Award deadline has been extended to October 15, 2011. Read more information here.
Sparkle, Nurses, Sparkle!!
Please share your best practices with your fellow nurses. Enter our TSNO SCHOOL NURSING SHOWCASE
- Have you had success with an immunization program or asthma program?
- Have you conducted a mini research at your school on best practice for relieving headaches, stomachaches, or whatever your number 1 complaint in the clinic is?
- Did you establish a walking program or other health practice with your students?
- Do you have an innovative way of organizing your clinic or training staff to give medicines when you are not present?
- Have you had a successful presentation to school boards on why nurses are important to the education system?
- Have you created a good in-service for other school nurses?
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Thank you to our 2011 TSNO Conference sponsors:
Gold Sponsor - School Nurse Suppy
Silver Sponsor - Texas Optometric Association
