• Working with Your School Nurse: What General Education Teachers Should Do To Promote Educational Success for Students with Health Needs (Archived)
Challenge
Initial Thoughts
Perspectives & Resources

Do you think Ms. Worley’s and Ms. Valens’s reasons for being upset were valid? (Opinion Question: No Resources)

What is Ms. Valens’s role as a school nurse?

With whom should Ms. Valens collaborate?

Resources

Wrap Up

Working with Your School Nurse: What General Education Teachers Should Do To Promote Educational Success for Students with Health Needs (Archived)

Assessment

Take some time now to answer the following questions. Please note that the IRIS Center does not collect your Assessment responses. If this is a course assignment, you should turn them in to your professor using whatever method he or she requires. If you have trouble answering any of the questions, go back and review the Perspectives & Resources pages in this module.

  1. student in wheelchair twirling basketball on his fingerDescribe how the school nurse serves all students within the school environment.
  2. Describe how the school nurse can assist students with disabilities who have healthcare needs. Name and describe the three major reasons for the increase in demand for school nurses, especially in regard to students with disabilities.
  3. What role does the school nurse play in the IEP process? Why is it important that the school nurse attend IEP meetings?
  4. Why is it important for the school nurse to collaborate with families of students with disabilities? With school personnel? With community professionals?
  
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