The School Nurse program at Education
Service Center Region 12 seeks to provide school nurses
with the most current information available. In the
ever changing world of student health, it is vital
that nurses receive up-to-date information. The School
Nurse Program provides training sessions which will
include hands-on experience and courses that refresh
previously learned material.
Sessions provided and/or facilitated by the School Health Specialist
at ESC Region 12 include:
- Abstinence Education programs
- American
Heartsaver First Aid & CPR/AED for Schools
- Coordinated
School Health
- Coordinated School
Health Co-op membership
- Annual Coordinated School Health Institute
- Immunization Updates (if applicable)
- Injury
Prevention:
- Administering Medication - School Healthcare Orientation
- Asthma -Coordinated School Health Institute
- Tobacco and alcohol awareness
- Mental
Health-Suicide Prevention
- School Health
Advisory Councils (SHAC)
- School
Nurse Updates
- State Mandated TETN/Video Conferences for Nurses
Screenings:
- Unlicensed Diabetic Care Assistant
(SB 530) full training for new employee
- Unlicensed
Diabetic Care Assistant (SB 530) Annual refresher
training for all UDCA employees who attended the
full day training
- Hearing
Certification (certificate valid for 5 years)
- Hearing
Recertification (certificate valid for 5 years)
- Scoliosis Certification (certificate
valid for 5 years)
- Vision Certification
(certificate valid for 5 years)
- Vision Recertification (certificate valid for 5 years)
Please be advised that if an individual does not attend
a recertification vision or hearing training prior
to December 31st of their 5th year of being certified
they must attend the basic all day workshop/s. For
example, if anniversary date for certificate is July
2005, the certificate expires December 31st of the
expiration year (2005), not the 5 year anniversary
of taking the class.
A nurse may earn Type I CNEs for
attending designated sessions/workshops.
Counselors, social workers and psychologists
may earn LPC/SW/CEU credit for attending designated
sessions/workshops.
"McLennan Community College is an approved
provider of continuing nursing education by Texas
Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission
on Accreditation. This activity meets Type I criteria
for mandatory continuing education requirements toward
re licensure as established by the Board of Nurse
Examiners for the State of Texas."
For more information on these programs and for resources
for school nurses, please visit our informational pages.
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