Purpose

This class will provide school nurses with the knowledge, skills, and resources to respond to a trauma event occurring in school.    It will also provide diabetes knowledge, tools and resources to facilitate effective diabetes management for students at school.

January 13, 2017
Check in at 9:30 AM
Program Time 10:00 – 3:45 PM

Robert E. Coleman Medical Staff Auditorium
Greenville Memorial Hospital
701 Grove Road
Greenville, SC 29605

Instructor List

Jacqueline Granger, MD, a staff physician at the Greenville Health System and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville.

Keith Webb, MD, a Pediatric Surgeon at the Greenville Health System

Heather Garrison, RN, BSN, CPEN, a Clinical Nurse Educator in the Children’s Emergency Department of the Greenville Health System

Deb Wilfong, RN, MS, the Pediatric Trauma Coordinator at Greenville Memorial Hospital

Debra Kitchens, MBA, BSN, CEN, NRP-P, the Trauma Program Manager at the Greenville Health System

Jonda Dawson, RN, CDE, a Certified Diabetes Educator at the Greenville Health System

Learning Outcomes

1. Summarize basic principles and methods used in triage in response to school-based trauma event
2. Discuss the role of the school nurse in response to a school-based trauma event
3. Apply the basic components of diabetes care at school.
4. Identify basics of insulin.
5. Identify tools and resources to keep children with diabetes safe in school.
6. Discuss concepts of continuous glucose monitoring and the importance of recognizing differentials in readings related to actual blood sugar with a finger stick.

Agenda

9:30 AM                      Registration

10:00 – 12:00 PM        Dealing with Trauma in the School Setting – Debra Kitchens, MBA, BSN, CEN, NRP-P, Jacqueline Granger, MD, Keith Webb, MD, Heather Garrison, RN, BSN, CPEN, Deb Wilfong, RN, MS

12:00 – 1:00 PM                      Break 

1:15 –  3:45 PM           Managing Diabetes in the School Setting – Jonda Dawson, RN, CDE

3:45 PM                       Adjourn

Continuing Education Credit:

Licensed Nurses:  Upstate AHEC is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Upon successful completion of this program, attendees will receive 4.5 contact hours.

Fee: $90.00 for non-Upstate AHEC members; $ 0 for AHEC members

Successful completion of the program requires attendance for at least 90 percent of the course and a completed evaluation by the participant.

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Online (preferred) www.upstateahec.org

Email ltaylor@upstateahec.org

Call 864-349-1160

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