NEW – Live Online Advanced Certificate in Professional Practice for School Nurses

7 December 2021 – 23 June 2022 (10.00am – 3.45pm)

Context:

School nurses form a key part of the safeguarding and pastoral care framework within our schools however staff CPD opportunities seldom focus on the key areas to support their professional development. As part of a refocus of the training available through the BSA, we can now offer a standalone Professional Practice Certificate for school medical staff.

New Certificate Course:

This course will link professional practice with current research and best practice to provide a unique opportunity for school nurses, whether working in relative isolation or as part of the medical team, to development their knowledge, skills and practice across a wide range of the key current themes/topics most relevant to their role. In addition, there will be a linked research project which will provide the chance to focus on a specific aspect in more detail.

Course Outline:

The course will consist of 4 separate live online study days spread over a ful03l academic year. The sessions on each study day will be a mixture of presentations often with an external expert, and group discussions.

Study Days for this Module are:

• Day 1 – Tuesday, December 7^th 2021
• Day 2 – Wednesday, February 9^th 2022
• Day 3 – Monday, May 9^th 2022
• Day 4 – Thursday, June, 23^rd 2022

Study Day sessions will include:

• The role of the Nurse in a school setting
• The medical centre in the wider context: inspection planning, managing medicines
• Where to now: progression and development within the medical centre: auditing/department development plans
• Working with children with ASD and ADHD
• Travel Health and immunisations
• Managing a critical incident
• Drug misuse and screening
• Delivering health education in a school setting
• Working with young people with disordered eating
• Mental health risk assessment/working with a mental health lead/pastoral team
• legal issues
• Policy writing
• Sexual health, contraception and screening
• Managing children from overseas with medical conditions
• Supervision/revalidation and clinical supervision
• Working with external agencies
• Course Assignment & Reflection

Course Assignment:

The course assignment provides course students with an opportunity to focus on a specific area of particular relevance to their school/role. This can range from ‘supporting a student with a complex medical condition; a review of the nursing provision in the school; the development of a new appraisal system; the management of medical records across a whole school; health promotion models; to a student guide to accessing specific support for an emotional health issue.

The assignment will take the form of a 2000 – 3000 word written project which can be an essay or a report which must be submitted by 30th June 2021. These will be assessed by the course tutor and the results published/certificates issued in the early Autumn.

Our Preferred Training Platform is Zoom

Cost – £650 which covers all 4 study days, assignment marking, certificates and Accredited Boarding Practitioner Status.  Find out more about The BSA Accredited Boarding Practitioner Scheme Here