Priority 4 – School Health Services
For students with chronic health conditions, school nurses and other health care providers play a large role in the daily management of their conditions. School health services staff are there to provide coordination of care and overall support.
Explore the resources below to support school health services and help students manage their chronic health conditions. These resources include webinars, guides, articles, and ready-to-go handouts to share with staff and families.
Managing Chronic Health Conditions Resources from the National Association of School Nurses
This article written in collaboration with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
outlines how the local wellness policy can be expanded beyond the tradition focus of
nutrition and physical activity to address the health and academic needs of students
with chronic health conditions.
This interactive tool includes a symptom and contact tracker, and county maps for
infection rates to establish guidance on student absence due to COVID-19. Spanish
translation available.
This educational activity will enable you to identify and apply the practice
components of Care Coordination to effectively and efficiently provide
evidence-based care for students with diabetes in school. (online, free) 1.0 CNE
The key resources on this NASN webpage support the school nurse leadership role in
building school communities through collaboration with state and local health and
education leaders. Advancing the leadership role of school nurses optimizes the
health and learning of students with chronic health conditions.
This document provides a summary of currently available resources that school nurses
can consult as they formulate independent nursing judgement for their practice or
when participating in policy discussions in their districts.
A FAQ resource to assist answering student health questions in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic, and to support parents with links to find additional resources.
Spanish translation available.
A flowchart guide to assess protocol for student illness complaints.
This tool provides an approach for school nurses to document the number of students
and staff identified with COVID-19 symptoms at school, and report to the designated
local health department, school building/system leadership, and health services
director/supervisor.
This program developed in collaboration with Alliance for a Healthier Generation
adopts evidence-based practices to help children with chronic health conditions
safely participate in out-of-school time (OST) programs.
An interactive guide to help recognize and manage difficult conversations to diffuse
emotional situations.
This document lists factors to consider when determining if the advantages outweigh
the disadvantages of implementing COVID-19 testing in schools.
This document outlines the role of the school nurse and describes current standards
of practice for the care of students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This document provides additional supplemental language that can be included in
local wellness policies to address the management of chronic health conditions in
schools.
This page contains condensed information and evidence-based references and resources
designed to assist school nurses in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic as they
formulate nursing judgement and participate in planning and policy development.
This article describes the process for convening a national Roundtable that brought
together multiple stakeholders to create a united vision and collaborative approach
to care coordination for students with chronic health conditions.
This manual is intended to guide school nurses and school nurse leaders who plan to
implement SNLCM, to outline the key components of SNLCM, and to provide program
implementation and evaluation strategies and tools.
This guideline provides school nurses with a uniform practice for the administration
of medication in schools to improve the structure, processes, and outcomes of
medication administration.
This webinar will provide school nurses with guidance on how to identify key health
and education stakeholders to create, strengthen, and sustain partnerships to
support students with chronic health conditions be safe, healthy and ready to learn.
(online, free) 1.0 CNE
This tool will help prioritize practice activities to help focus your time,
attention, resources, and advocacy efforts.
The purpose of this document is to guide school nurses when planning for return to
school for students with disabilities and special healthcare needs (D/SHN) as
defined by Section 504 or Individual Education Program (IEP) teams.
These educational videos on hygiene are provided for school nurses as they
return-to-school during COVID-19, and can be used as a tool to educate the school
community including students, staff, and parents.
Materials from a training-of-trainers event focused on building skills for managing
chronic health conditions.
This interactive program is geared towards helping school nurses apply the NASN
Framework for 21st Century School Nursing PracticeTM in schools and incorporate and
apply CDC COVID-19 school-based guidance in schools to support students with a
chronic health condition. (online, free) 4.25 CNE
A podcast discussing challenges and strategies for collaboration between parents and
school nurses for students with chronic conditions.
This poster series developed in collaboration with SHAPE America highlights four of
the most common chronic health conditions in school-age children, what a health
emergency might look like, and what action steps to take.
This podcast gives an interdisciplinary approach to provide education and training
for school staff in order to support students through grief and bereavement.
This educational offering will provide school nurses with a fresh perspective about
what has changed and what has not changed as it relates to school nursing practice
and the management of chronic health conditions while in the midst of the COVID-19
pandemic. (online, free) 4.0 CNE
This toolkit was developed to give additional support the school nurse role in
leading care coordination for students with chronic health conditions. It includes
fact sheets, forms, and other resources.
This white paper provides strategies to develop effective care coordination action
plans which school communities can take to improve care coordination for students
with chronic health conditions.
This educational offering will allow school nurses to be knowledgeable about the
updated model wellness policy to address chronic health condition management,
positioning the school nurse to be able to fully participate when schools review and
refresh current school wellness policies. (online, free) 0.5 CNE