School Nursing 101
This nurse from the Crimean War, is often seen as the founder of mondern day nursing. She helped to initiated the first school of nursing, and has her own pledge that is often recited today.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This over-the-counter medication is commonly given for headaches or fevers, but its dosage for children is weight based and calcuated carefully with this formula.
15mg/kg
Symptoms prior to diagnosis include thirst, frequent urination, hunger, and unintended weight loss.
What are symptoms associated with Type 1 Diabetes?
These two individuals are the Executive Directors for GFPS.
Who are Jackie Mainwaring and Lance Boyd?
This is a program that offers home visitation to help with asthma management and provides services such as air filters and matrress covers.
What is the Montana Asthma Home Visiting Program (MAP)
She is the current MASN president.
Who is Lisa Flanagan?
This is the name of the "smart insulin pen" manufactured by Medtronic that assists with dosing calculations.
What is the InPen?
This is the vision screening eqiupment used by the Lion's Club.
What is the Plus Optix?
This is the GFPS School Board Policy that addresses Administering Medication to Students.
What is SB Policy 3416?
This person is the current Chief Health Officer for CCHD.
Who is Abigail Hill?
She is the current NASN President.
Who is Kate King?
This is the classification of medicines that are the first line controller medications for asthma.
What are corticosteroid inhalers (i.e. Flovent, Pulmicort, Qvar)
This is the approved suicide screening tool used in GFPS.
What is the C-SSRS? (Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale)
These two schools have current 1:1 nursing assignments.
What is Meadowlark Elementary and East Middle School?
Disability laws mandate that all children with diabilities must be affored a free and appropriate education in this.
What is least restrictive eniornment (LRE)?
What is Community/Public Health, Care Coordination, Quality Improvement, and Leadersihp?
This medication is often prescribed to students with POTS for treatment of their low blood pressure. (vasopressor)
What is midodrine?
This is the name of the screening tool used to screen children for anxiety. It was used in the research project presented by Donna Sanders and Bri Ceynar.
What is the SCARED Tool?
This individual is the chair person of the GFPS School Board.
Who is Gordon Johnson?
This is the primary federal law that governs how all states provide special education and related services to children with disabilitites from birth to age 21.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)
She is credited as the founder of school nursing in the United States.
Who is Lillian Wald?
This is the brand name of the first approved intranasal epinephrine medication.
What is Neffy?
This is the name for tiny white spots that may appear 2-3 days after initial measles symptoms present.
What are Koplik spots?
This is the name of the head leadership group of GFPS consisting of the superintendent, Executive Directors, HR Director, Dir of Business Operations, IT Direcor, and GFPS Foundation Executive Director.
What is the GFPS Cabinet?
This is federal entitity that oversees the rights of students with disabilities to access their free and appropriate education and enforces Section 504 of teh Rehabilitation Act.
What is the Office of Civil Rights (OCR?)