A student’s health care is directly related to their ability to learn. Unmet health needs can challenge a student’s ability to engage in the educational process. The role of the school nurse includes both health and educational goals as they coordinate care of the student between the home, community, medical setting, and school. SHNIC has developed several resources to prepare the school nurse as the the leader of school health team. These resources can be used as a guide when providing direct care or nursing services, managing the health care plan, educating staff about emergency plans, identifying possible classroom accommodations for the student, as well as providing resources for parents for students with special health care needs.
Factsheets for Medical Conditions
- Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)
- Autonomic Dysreflexia
- Cancer Considerations
- Cerebral Palsy
- CHARGE Syndrome
- Chronic Pain/Related Functional Impairment
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dandy Walker
- Diabetes
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- FIRES
- Friedreich Ataxia
- Hemophilia
- Lupus
- Mitrochondrial Disease
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neurofibromatosis
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- PANDAS
- Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
- Prader Willi Syndrome
- Rett Syndrome
- Seizures
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Somatic Symptoms
- Sturge Weber Syndrome
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Transverse Myelitis
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Turner Syndrome
- VATER/VACTERL Association
- Williams Syndrome
- Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome