Shirley Schantz, RN, EdD, ARNP, NASN Nursing Education Director, presented “The Role of School Nurses in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity” a national webinar sponsored by Collaborate for Healthy Weight - a project of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ). View this presentation.
National Association of School Nurses Resources
School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Education (S.C.O.P.E.)
A comprehensive, live, full day continuing education program.
Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in School (H.A.N.D.S.SM)
A live continuing education full day program for school nurses.
Resolution: Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents (02/01/2010)
Resolution: Vending Machines and Healthy Food Choices in Schools (2004)
Diabetes in Children
This page provides tools and resources for the school nurse to effectively manage diabetes at school.
School Wellness Policies
NASN presents information on the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 and how it impacts school nurses.
Online Continuing Education Modules
Learn more on the Online CE page of this site
Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Overview
1.0 CNE Contact Hour
Developed through the collaboration of the United Health Foundation and the National Association of School Nurses
Evidence-Based Practice
1.0 CNE Contact Hour
Developed through the collaboration of the United Health Foundation and the National Association of School Nurses
School Nurse Leadership: Advocating for Change
1.0 CNE Contact Hour
Developed through the collaboration of the United Health Foundation and the National Association of School Nurses
Acanthosis Nigricans - School Nurse Educational Program
1.0 CNE contact hour
Acanthosis Nigricans: The Education and Screening Project (ANTES)
Texas-Mexico Border Health Coordination Office
http://www.utpa.edu/dept/tmbhco/tmbhco/antes.htm
University of Texas - Pan American
https://antes.cs.panam.edu/RFES/index.htm
We Can!® is a national childhood obesity prevention program.
We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition) is a national movement designed to give parents, caregivers, and entire communities a way to help children 8 to 13 years old stay at a healthy weight. We Can! offers resources to promote healthy weight in youth through community outreach, partnership development, and media activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse populations. Science-based educational programs, support materials, training opportunities, and other resources are available. http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/wecan/
Let's Move Campaign
NASN supports First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign and is a partner in working towards achieving the campaign's ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation. For more information about the national effort, go to http://www.letsmove.gov/ .
Let's Move in Schools
Let's Move in School is a call to action for teachers, principals, superintendents, school boards, and parents to help schools provide a comprehensive school physical activity program with quality physical education as the foundation so that youth will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.
Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative
Resources and tools from the Office of the Surgeon General
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/obesityprevention/
Action for Healthy Kids
A national nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the epidemic of overweight, undernourished and sedentary youth by focusing on changes in schools.
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
A partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation coming together to create a new generation of healthy Americans by addressing one of the nation’s leading public health threats – childhood obesity.
http://www.healthiergeneration.org/default.aspx
School Nurses Take the Lead 2011
A compilation of school nurses success stories from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation
http://www.nasn.org/portals/0/resources/2011_success_stories_alliance_for_a_healthier_generation.pdf
American Academy of Pediatrics
Children's Health Topics: Overweight and Obesity
http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/overweight.cfm
American Academy of Pediatrics (2007). Expert Committee Recommendations Regarding the Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Summary Report. Pediatrics. 120(Supplement December 2007), S164-S192.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/short/120/Supplement_4/S164
American Association for Health Education
McDermott, R. (Ed.) (2009). Diabetes education [Special feature]. American Journal of Health Education, 40(5), 257-307.
This publication addresses interventions from health educators will that will make a significant contribution to the health and well-being of young people with or at risk for diabetes and includes eight feature articles about children with diabetes and children at risk for type 2 diabetes.
http://www.aahperd.org/aahe/about/updates/upload/AJOHE_Sept-Oct09-ingenta.pdf
American Diabetes Association
Home page
http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
School Walk for Diabetes is an educational school fund-raising program
http://schoolwalk.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?pagename=SW_homepage
American Diabetes Association (2008). Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2008. Diabetes Care. 31(Supplement 1), S12-S54.
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/reprint/31/Supplement_1/S12
American Dietetic Association
Childhood Overweight Evidence Analysis Project
http://www.adaevidencelibrary.com/topic.cfm?cat=1046&alt_header=0
American Heart Association (2004). Summary of the Fourth Report on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents. Hypertension. (44), 387-388. http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/44/4/387
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. (2006). Tracking Progress: The Third Annual Arkansas Assessment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity, August 2006. Little Rock, Arkansas.
http://www.burnesscommunications.com/usr_doc/obesity_report.pdf
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Home Page
http://www.cspinet.org/
Center for Science in the Public Interest (November 2007). State School Foods Report Card 2007.
http://www.cspinet.org/2007schoolreport.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Body Mass Index
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/index.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2007). Body Mass Index Measurement in Schools - Executive Summary.
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/obesity/BMI/pdf/BMI_execsumm.pdf
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion - Healthy Youth!
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Childhood Obesity
Local Wellness Policy Tools & Resources
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/healthtopics/wellness.htm
The Future of Children
A Collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution seeking to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research. http://www.futureofchildren.princeton.edu/briefs/briefs/FOC%20policy%20brief%20spr%2006.pdf
Beckman Center of the National Academies, Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity in collaboration with The California Endowment Supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2006). Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Industry - Brief Summary: Institute of Medicine Regional Symposium. California: The National Academies Press.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11614&ups=11461
Trust for America's Health. F as in Fat: 2009. How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America. Washington, District of Columbia.
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2009/
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National High Blood Pressure Education Program. (2004). The 4th Report on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.
http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/nhbpep_slds/bpped/download/hbp-ch.pdf
SEARCH For Diabetes in Youth
A multi-center study of diabetes in children and youth
SEARCH is a multi-center study funded by the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) and NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases). The study focuses on children and youth in the U.S. who have diabetes.
http://www.searchfordiabetes.org/public/provider/index.cfm
Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY)
TODAY is a nationwide research study to find the best ways to treat young people with type 2 diabetes. We are looking for volunteers who have type 2 diabetes and are between 10 to 17 years old to be in the study.
http://www.todaystudy.org/index.cgi
National Diabetes Education Program
Resources on Children and Adolescents
Visit the Web site below or call 1-800-438-5383 for free copies of tip sheets for kids with type 2 diabetes and other materials.
www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/youth/youth.htm
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The Weight-control Information Network (WIN)
Helping Your Overweight Child
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/over_child.htm