Moving Up course for Nurses
This session is aimed at a universal audience and will explore the transition from primary school to secondary school. It will discuss the factors that may impact on this transition and the role of services to support children with particular physical, developmental, emotional or social needs.
Learning objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Recognise ways of identifying children with health, developmental and social needs who need targeted support and identify ways to help them
- Outline identification of, and interventions to stop, the development of eating disorders, obesity and spending excessive screen time on TV and computers
- Recognise the differences between normal pubertal development, early puberty and precocious puberty and the impact on the transition to secondary school
- Identify the psychological and social impact of early puberty and management of menstruation in primary school settings and the support offered to children with learning difficulties or autism spectrum condition (ASC) in (early) puberty
- Briefly outline the presentation of adolescent scoliosis
- Recognise issues around emotional and social development and how this impacts on learning in secondary school, and the differences in support for vulnerable learners in secondary compared with primary school
This session uses self assessments that help you check what you have learnt. You do not have to use them and your answers are not seen by anyone else.
Jane Wright is a senior lecturer and course leader for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing at Buckinghamshire New University. She has a background in adult nursing and school nursing in Buckinghamshire. Jane has written a number of books and articles about school nursing practice, is on the editorial board of the British Journal of School Nursing and has been involved with the Department of Health School nurse Implementation Plan.
$99.00
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