Health Agenda Goal 5a

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Health Agenda Goal 5a

• Progress toward achieving our goal
• Facilitated communication with school leadership
  teams
• Entered into memorandum of understanding with
  nursing agencies to provide healthcare to special
  needs students
• Expanded community partnerships
• Department leaders participated
• in community events to promote and
• provide opportunities to new nursing
  graduates

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Health Agenda Goal 5a

• Analysis supporting need
• Department provides healthcare to over 80,000
  students of which 41,000 students have
• significant health conditions
• 6,343 students with asthma
• 1,681 students with allergies
• 363 students with seizure disorders
• 133 students with diabetes
• Department serves a total of 190 schools and
  programs
• Nurse to student ratio 11,122 in 2010-2011
• Projected Nurse to student ratio 1 1,298 in
  2011-2012

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Health Agenda Goal 5a

• Challenges
• Colorado Senate Bill 226 Allergies and
  Anaphylaxis
• Nurses must train all school staff prior to the
  first day of school
• Revision of School Budgets
• Guidelines no longer mandate adhering to nurse
  to student ratio recommendations
• Communication Barriers
• Difficult for nursing leadership to communicate
  directly with school leadership
• Educators ineffective at hiring and evaluating
  health professionals
• Limited resources related to district wide
  re-organization
• Lack of building support for school nurse
  professional development

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Health Agenda Goal 5a

• Looking Forward
• Promote direct contact between Nursing Services
  and School Leadership/Administrators
• School Nurse participation in hiring health
  support staff
• Continue immediate postings for School Nurse
  positions
• Resolve Human Resources obstacles
• Funds to advertise in venues that specifically
  target school nurses rather than
  educators
• Build administrative support for staff
  development specific to School Nursing practice.
• Nursing Department committed
• to using HealthTeacher