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NASN Resources
- New publication
Managing Diabetes at School: Tools for the School Nurse provides school nurses and other diabetes-trained health care professionals with sample IHPs, as well as tools and resources needed for assessment, planning and implementing the IHP. The diabetes procedures, skills checklists, delegation checklists and forms for documenting students daily diabetes management, compliment the three tiered framework for training school staff outlined in the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel, updated 2010 edition. Tools for the School Nurse is a 220 page spiral manual accompanied by a disc containing forms in PDF and WORD formats, and is adapted from NASN’s H.A.N.D.S.sm (Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in School) program. Learn More
- Diabetes Management
1.0 CNE Contact Hour/module
Free to NASN Members! (Non-member price: $15.00/module)
This program is supported by an educational grant from sanofi-aventis U.S.
Module 1: Update on Insulin
Module 2: Introduction to Carbohydrate Counting
Learn more
- Helping Administer to the Needs of the Student with Diabetes in School (H.A.N.D.S.SM)
H.A.N.D.S.SM is a live continuing education full day program developed by the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) for school nurses to equip the school nurse with current diabetes knowledge, and provide tools and resources to facilitate effective diabetes management for students at school. It is presented by a School Nurse with a specific interest in diabetes and a Certified Diabetes Educator.
- Learn more about the program
- Access program updates
- School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Education (S.C.O.P.E.)
S.C.O.P.E. is a live continuing education full day program developed by the National Association of School Nurses (NASN)to provide strategies for school nurses to assist students, families and the school community to address the challenges of obesity and overweight. It is presented by a School Nurse with a specific interest in childhood obesity.
Learn more
- Childhood Obesity Resources
A wide variety of Web links to resources from NASN and other leading authorities on childhood obesity.
Access now
- Position Statements:
- Delegation (2010)
- School Nurse Role in Care and Management of the Child with Diabetes in the School Setting (2006)
- Overweight Children and Adolescents (2002)
Browse NASN Position Statements
Additional Resources
Support for Behavior Change Resource (SBCR)
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) has launched a new set of tools and resources to support behavior change for people with or at risk for diabetes and the health care professionals who counsel and care for them. Visit the NDEP website at http://www.YourDiabetesInfo.org and click on Support for Behavior Change under What’s New and explore the multiple tools and resources that have been assembled by a team of experts in behavior change. Search for research articles, tools and resources by target area, behavior strategy and audience. From January 2010 through March 2010, you can also provide feedback and offer additional resources – just click on How to Submit Materials on the SBCR page at http://www.ndep.nih.gov/sbcr/index.aspx.
added to this site 12/22/09
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
added to this site 12/11/09
Web Links
The following Web sites provide diabetes management resources for school nurses.
 NDEP Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed – A Guide for School Personnel 2010 Edition
(includes Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia Emergency Care Plans)
http://ndep.nih.gov/publications/PublicationDetail.aspx?PubId=97#main
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
http://www.yourdiabetesinfo.org
NDEP Children and Adolescent Workgroup Articles for the School Nurse
On NASN.org
American Diabetes Association:
http://www.diabetes.org
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes:
http://www.barbaradaviscenter.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Diabetes Translation
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes
Children with Diabetes
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com
Colorado Kids with Diabetes An example of a collaborative partnership
http://www.coloradokidswithdiabetes.org/
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
http://www.jdrf.org
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