Resources
School nursing
Resources
School nurse staffing recommendations:
- 53G-9-204 (2022) State of Utah school nurse staffing recommendations.
- School nursing recommendations (2022) Department of Health and Human Services staffing recommendations for schools with less than 2,000 students.
Concussion
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HEADS UP to schools: Know Your Concussion ABC's is a flexible set of materials, developed for professionals working with grades K-12, will help identify and respond to concussions in an array of school settings.
Allergy/ anaphylaxis
- EpiPen4Schools-
Each eligible school can receive up to four FREE EpiPen or EpiPen Jr Auto-Injectors in the form of two EpiPen 2-Pak® cartons, two EpiPen Jr 2-Pak® cartons, or one 2-Pak of each kind.
Diabetes
- Colorado Kids with Diabetes
- Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel (2022)
- American Diabetes Association
- Primary Children's Guidelines for Diabetes Management in the School Setting (2024)
Asthma
Stop the bleed
- Stop the bleed trainings
- Stop the bleed resources and materials - posters, flow charts, videos, tourniquet use
- Become a stop the bleed instructor- School nurses can become stop the bleed instructors, and have access to all resources.
Tobacco Prevention
Utah Tobacco Prevention and Control Program tobaccofree.utah.org
- Resource for school nurses: tobacco screening, cessation, and prevention
- Comprehensive drug-free policy guide for schools
Websites
- Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
- Germ watch - Intermountain Health GermWatch is a free tool that helps track and monitor the spread of germs in Utah. This can help nurses have a better understating of what is going around in the community.
- Infection control (CDC)
- Period toolkit- The period project (UT)
- Pink eye (CDC)
- Infectious Disease Reporting- (Epidemiology)
- Primary Children's Hospital
- Utah Food Allergy Network