Helpful Links & Resources

Resources

• Guidance for Schools: Supporting Immigrant, Undocumented and Refugee Students and Families 

• Healthy Learner Collaborative includes representatives from K-12 schools, health care organizations, and higher education institutions in the Dane County area. The goal of the collaboration is to improve the health and educational outcomes of children with chronic illness.

• NASN: Better Health, Better Learning e-Toolkit  A resource to help school nurses highlight their role in supporting education and advancing health.

• School Health Associates

• School Nursing and Health Services: WI Dept. of Public Instruction

• WISHeS: School Nursing Procedure Manual

The following procedures are available at this site: Gastrostomy Button Feeding; Tracheal Suctioning; Blood Glucose Monitoring; Female & Male Catheterization; Checking for Ketones; Wheelchair to floor and floor to wheelchair transfers; and Using a Walker. 

Links

• Alliance For A Healthier Generation

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• CDC Healthy Schools

• Genetics Home Reference (consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variation on human health

• Healthy School Campaign

• Dane County Immunization Coalition

• Immunization Action Coalition

• Kennedy Krieger Institute: Information for school nurses from the specialized health needs interagency collaboration (SHNIC). Helpful short articles about various health conditions and their implications for school and emergency planning.

• Learning for Justice

• Medline Plus

• National Association of School Nurses (NASN)

• National Association for Rare Diseases

• National Institute of Mental Health

• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIN-compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes)

• Public Health Madison & Dane County

• Wisconsin Association of School Nurses (WASN)

• Wisconsin Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction-School Nursing & Health Services

• Wisconsin Immunization Program