BSA Advanced Certificate in Professional Practice for School Nurses

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.

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

BSA – Hieda Certificate in Professional Practice for School Nurses – January Module

Study Days for the January module are:

New spring course dates added!

• Day 1 :  January 17, 2023
• Day 2 :  February 27, 2023
• Day 3 :  May 5, 2023
• Day 4 :  June 21, 2023

All study Days will be held online via Zoom.

To begin your qualification in JANUARY module click here

• 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, Guest Speaker, Dave Parvin, Drugsense UK
• 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 July 2022. These will be assessed by the course tutor and the results published/certificates issued in the early Autumn.

BSA – Hieda Certificate in Professional Practice for School Nurses – November Module

Study Days for the January module are:

• Day 1 :  January 17, 2023
• Day 2 :  February 27, 2023
• Day 3 :  May 5, 2023
• Day 4 :  June 21, 2023

All study Days will be held online via Zoom.

To begin your qualification in JANUARY module click here

Timings for each study day – 10.00 to 15.45

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

This course is led by BSA Nursing Advisor Jane Graham along with course tutor, Rosie McManus

Jane Graham, MSc, BSc, Dip Ed., R.S.C.N, BSA Group Director, Health and Wellbeing and Director, HIEDA

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has over 30 years of nursing background, 17 of which is in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She is a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding School where she was is the Lead Nurse. On the back of setting up the school’s medical services, she set up a first aid training company Action + First Aid. She is a freelance instructor for Qualsafe an awarding body approved by the HSE. Jane is currently the director of health and wellbeing at the boarding schools association group and director of Hieda ( health in education association) that provides training, support, advice and guidance for schools and workplaces on all medical matters.

Jane is actively supporting these environments to raise the standard of medical provision in order to create a mentally and physical healthier environment and workforce.

Rosie McManus, Rosie McManus RSCN, Dip HR (Child), BSc (Hons), MSc (Law), Senior Nurse and Health Centre Manager, King’s School, Canterbury

Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children Rosie came to school nursing in the independent sector 16 years ago.  With a passion for boarding pastoral and health care Rosie has developed an interest in the understanding and development of the health needs of boarding school students.  Passionate about the nurse’s role in the delivery of the PSHE curriculum,  Rosie is currently the Senior Nurse and Health Centre Manager for a large independent school in the South East, she has a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law, is a NUCO trainer and has a keen interest in the development of the school nurse role.

BSA – Hieda Certificate in Professional Practice for School Nurses – November Module

Study Days for the January module are:

• Day 1 :  January 17, 2023
• Day 2 :  February 27, 2023
• Day 3 :  May 5, 2023
• Day 4 :  June 21, 2023

All study Days will be held online via Zoom.

To begin your qualification in JANUARY module click here

Timings for each study day – 10.00 to 15.45