Contents
- Overview
- Fundamental Principles
- Part A: Legal Issues – Educational
- Special Education
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Individualized Health Care Plans
- The Role of the School Nurse (Registered Nurse) in Special Education and Section 504
- Confidentiality: Family Educational Rights to Privacy Act
- Confidentiality: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Where FERPA and HIPAA May Intersect
- References
- Part B: Legal Issues – Clinical
- Organizational Structure: The Decision-making Process
- Personnel
- General
- Qualifications for Regular, Contract, and Substitute Personnel
- Planning for the Absence of Staff Providing Health Services
- Consultation, Supervision, Continuing Education and In-Service Training
- Delegation of Health Activities, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Team Functioning
- References
- Entry/Re-entry Process
- Specialized Health Care Procedures
- Asthma
- Allergies
- Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Catheterization: Clean Intermittent
- Catheter: External
- Catheter: Indwelling
- Catheterization: Reinsertion of Indwelling Urinary Catheter
- Central Line Care
- Diabetes
- Enteral Tube Feeding
- Health Assessment
- Incontinent Care
- Injectables: Intramuscular, Subcutaneous Medication or Vaccination Administration
- Insulin Pump Management
- Intravenous Therapy
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Oral Feeding
- Oral or Inhaled Medication Administration
- Ostomy Management and Care
- Oxygen Therapy
- Pulse Oximetry
- Suctioning (non-tracheostomy)
- Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning
- Vagus Nerve Stimulator
- Appendices
- Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing. Declaratory Ruling on Delegation by Licensed Nurses to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
- Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing. Declaratory Ruling on LPN Scope of Practice
- Section 504 Parental Rights
- Suggested Qualifications and Role of the School Medical Advisor in the Implementation of the School Health Services Program
- Nurse Practice Act
- Qualifications of a school nurse