I loved the content of your research paper. As you may know I am a nurse within the
school setting. I see many children with
different medical needs. I find it very
important to educate teachers and staff on health issues of students. This information is what I would use to
educate staff on why a child is having specific medical needs. Getting an understanding of what happened to
a child and why they have certain medical needs of students is something I
incorporate immediately.
I also liked this information because of the importance of
reminding school staff that when they have parent volunteers who are pregnant,
they should be cognizant of what childhood illnesses have been in their
classroom, such as chicken pox. Teachers
should let pregnant mothers, who come to the classroom to volunteer, if there
have been any illnesses in the classroom recently.
Another portion of your paper I was extremely interested in
was the section on vision and hearing deficits.
Doing early vision and hearing screening, for Kindergartens especially,
is so important. This is one task I take
very seriously. Students must be
screened early in the school year. By
identifying hearing and vision deficits we can hopefully get intervention and
prevent hurdles in learning because of vision and hearing deficits.
Seizures in another area that I have found are a huge
stressor on teachers and school personnel.
Seizures can be very scary.
Educating the school staff to protocols is key in keeping students safe
and healthy. We have a seizure action
plan for each student with seizures. We
also train all school personnel on seizure care, should a seizure happen with a
student who is or is not identified as having a seizure disorder. I was wondering what your experience has been
in this area. I like to get insight from
school staff on what works best for them and meets their needs.
Thank you for a very informative paper.
I have had a lot of personal experience with seizures. This section was the easiest to write about because my husband has seizures. Although I have not experienced them in a school setting, the first several years of our relationship I learned what can cause them, the affects they have on an individual, and what can be done to help them during and after a seizure. He is a large man (6 ft 4 about 300 pounds) and I was so scared the first time he had a seizure. I of course called an ambulance because I had no clue what to do, but as time passed I knew that there was nothing sending him to a hospital after each seizure would do but give us bills. The best thing I could do was keep him safe and trust him when he felt that there was a possible seizure coming on.
ReplyDeleteI have not had much experience with the other infections I learned about when writing this research paper, but feel that I am better informed and prepared for dealing with parents in the classroom as you discussed with pregnant women volunteering in the school. I have shared the information with pregnant teachers that I am working with now and hope that the information not only taught me a lot about these infections but others as well.