At some point during the school year, you may be notified regarding a student who has specific health care needs. This section is intended to provide you with resources to increase your knowledge so you can help keep the student safe in your classroom. You will find resources for some of the most common or serious chronic health diagnoses seen at school as you scroll down this page or click on the diagnosis immediately below. Please let me know if you have other questions or concerns regarding your specific student, not addressed by their care plan and these resources.
Teaching the Student with Diabetes
The health office has shared with you that one of your students has diabetes. In addition to a specific health care plan for this student, the nurse will review what you need to know to keep the student safe in class. Below are resources for your review. Please remember that the student with diabetes is ALWAYS permitted to come to the health office upon request.
Overview of Diabetes For Teachers
Please watch the videos on diabetes basics, hypoglycemia (low sugar) and hyperglycemia (high sugar) and review the Diabetic Basics PowerPoint for Teachers. When you are done, click on the post test link. When you have completed the short test, please give it to Nurse Kathy. The Overview and quiz can also be found on True North Logic under ADA Basic Diabetes Care
POST TEST LINK FOR DIABETES BASICS
POST TEST LINK FOR DIABETES BASICS
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The Student with Life Threatening Allergies
If you have a student with a known allergy, please take some time to review the PowerPoint and watch the video on EpiPen administration. Even if you don't have a student with a known allergy, this is good information to review. Remember, about 25% of first time anaphylactic reactions at school occur in students with no previously known allergy. We have a school EpiPen for use for students who don't have an autoinject device or are having their first anaphylactic reaction. You can find it in the yellow plastic box across from the vault in the Main Office. By the way, there is a new administration device on the market called AuviQ. It works the same as an EpiPen with the added benefit that it talks you through the administration process! When you are done reviewing the PowerPoint , click on the post test link. When you have completed the short test, please give it to Nurse Kathy.
LINK TO POST TEST
LINK TO POST TEST
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The Student with Asthma
Asthma ranks only behind dental disease for the most common childhood chronic health diagnosis. Approximately one in ten school age children have asthma. It is one of the leading causes of school absences and accounts for an annual loss of more than 10.5 million school days per year. While we see many students with asthma at school, it is important to take this diagnosis very seriously. It is the third leading cause of pediatric hospital admissions and every day in this county nine people die of their disease.