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School & Diabetes: Making It Work for Everyone!

School & Diabetes: Making It Work for Everyone! . Name 3 “Who’s” involved in school & diabetes:. ________________ ________________ ________________. WHO IS INVOLVED:. Parents Child Diabetes Health Care Team Peers Teachers School Administrators Coaches

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School & Diabetes: Making It Work for Everyone!

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  1. School & Diabetes: Making It Work for Everyone!

  2. Name 3 “Who’s” involved in school & diabetes: • ________________ • ________________ • ________________

  3. WHO IS INVOLVED: • Parents • Child • Diabetes Health Care Team • Peers • Teachers • School Administrators • Coaches • National Association of School Nurses • American Diabetes Association • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

  4. The Contexts, Programs & People which comprehensive & effective school planning impacts and is impacted upon:

  5. Child & Family Needs: • Diabetes management plan for school that allows for all school and school related activity participation. • Assistance from Diabetes Team to provide disease management education & support to school personnel. • Belief that child will be diabetes-okay while in school. • Understanding from school about the psychological issues child & family are coping with. • School Nurse or School health Services personnel are familiar with child & her/his diabetes needs. • That all protocols are maintained even with substitute teachers and coaches. • To know that child’s peers have general understanding of what diabetes is and isn’t. • Disaster/Emergency Plan & well-stocked supplies.

  6. School Needs: • All forms medical forms filled out in complete and timely fashion. • Possibly in-service training on current diabetes standards of care & specific needs of individual child. • Contact people identified as “locus parentis” regarding diabetes management issues (in 504). • To know that family has been trained effectively in diabetes management. • Parents to appreciate district and school specific realities. • To be familiar with and comfortable in working with child & family’s Diabetes Team members. • Disaster/Emergency Diabetes Kits to be kept supplied & current

  7. List 3 Parental responsibilities for adequately preparing child for school setting: ______________________ ______________________ ______________________

  8. True or False! • It is the school’s prerogative to decide whether or not a 504 plan is necessary T or F? • Parents must prepare, provide & keep stocked a diabetes supplies kit to be kept in school T or F? • IHP’s are federally mandated T or F? • An IEP could be a component of the 504 Plan T or F? • A parent must accompany the child on all school trips in order for the child to be able to go on them T or F? • If a child’s School health form is not completed and submitted on time, the school has a legal right not to admit that child to class T or F?

  9. IEPs: Individual Education Plans • Done by the school FOR the child. • Usually developed by the parents and teachers. • More related to “educational” needs of the child with diabetes; very detailed and specififcto specific learning problems and issues.

  10. IHPs: Individual Health(care) Plans • Usually developed by parents, school nurse/health services official & Diabetes Team Nurse. • Usually integrated into and made to complement IEP when working with a child with diabetes. • Can “stand alone” as a school guideline, without an IEP.

  11. 504 Plans: • Federally mandated; at school’s expense. • MD, RN, Psychologist, Teacher(s), Principal. • Provides for the “smoothest and uninterrupted learning environment” for children who fall under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. • Location & timing of BGM, treatment protocols for hypo-& hyperglycemia, access to water, restroom, meals, snacks. • Special exam accommodations. • Identify Unlicensed Assistive Personnel • Whatever the child needs to mange diabetes effectively without compromising school & learning objectives.

  12. Resources • National Association of School Nurses (H.A.N.D.S. Program) www.NASN.org • American Diabetes Association • Safe At School Video, www.diabetes.org, code 3093-09 • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation • Children with Diabetes (www.childrenwithdiabetes.com , Diabetes At School

  13. THANK YOU

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