Over the past 2 years our district has cultivated and developed a relationship with University Hospital Samaritan Health Center in Ashland. Through this partnership, we were able to add a full time athletic trainer for our students. The relationship with UH-SHC will expand further iin August.
Through a collaborative, shared cost model, UH-SHC will provide a certified Registered Nurse with a School Nursing license on site to provide clinical services Monday through Friday next year. Amongst other services, the school nurse will provide:
= Health assessments including:
Health and
developmental history
Vision,
hearing, growth, & scoliosis screening and evaluation
Developmental
& health patterns in making a nursing assessment & nursing diagnosis
Identifying
health findings, which do not fall within the normal range
= Develop and implement health plans including:
Interpreting
to school personnel the health status of pupils
Initiating
referrals to parents, school personnel, and community health resources for
intervention, remediation, and follow through
Providing
ongoing health information to pupils, parents, school personnel, and health
agencies.
= Participate as the health specialist on the
Student Education Evaluation Team to develop individualized educational plans
(IEP)
= Plan and implement school health management
protocols for the students with chronic health problems.
= Coordinate school and community health
activities and serve as a liaison person between the home, School District, and
community.
= Plan and implement school health management
protocols for the students with chronic health problems including the
administering of medicine
= Develop procedures and provide for crisis
intervention for acute illness, injury, and emotional disturbances
= Promote and assist in the control of
communicable disease through preventative immunization programs, early
detection, surveillance, and reporting contagious disease
Again, this is not a
comprehensive list of services that will be provided to our students and school
community, but the benefits are significant.
New
London Local Schools is dedicated to the children of our community. This year we added Dept. Cawrse and the DARE program through a partnership with the Huron County Sheriff’s Office and Officer Jacobson from the NLPD to provide greater security for our students, staff, and overall learning community. We started drug testing our students as a means to combat the drug epidemic in our region. We also added Family Life Counseling to provide additional mental health services for our school, and through their clinical licensing program, New London Local Schools is one of only two school in our nation with fully credentialed mental health services available to its students and community. Additionally, we continued the Mobile Dentist
program for our students that provide low cost dental care.
We
know that if students are concerned about their safety, suffering from mental
health issues, or have chronic illness or are in poor physical health learning
becomes very difficult. The expansion of the non-academic services that
we provide our students to include nursing will have a positive
impact on attendance, achievement, and the overall performance of our students.