School Nurses in Providing Mental and Behavioral Health Services

Module IV Readings
Module IV Description
Mental/behavioral health services are minimal or nonexistent in most US schools. Yet the incidence of mental health conditions among children and adolescents has grown exponentially in the last decade. School nurses must be prepared to manage students with a variety of mental health concerns including Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mood Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, suicide ideation, and eating disorders. School nurses are often the first to interact with students in emotional turmoil due to grief, crisis, or despair. Knowledge of these conditions is necessary in the successful management of students in the health office. School nurses must also be prepared with the tools to identify, mediate and appropriately refer students with these conditions.
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5):
(1) Examine health-related barriers to learning for diverse student populations comprised of intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and medically fragile and complex needs.
(2) Analyze federal and state legislation related to child protection, adolescent rights to privacy, and the health and nursing care of special populations of students in school.
(3) Analyze evidence-based screening tools and interventional strategies in the early recognition and treatment of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
(4) Integrate the principles of health promotion, population health, care coordination, interprofessional collaboration, and cultural competency in reducing health-related barriers to learning.
(5) Examine the potential causes of, and the health, cultural, social, and behavioral effects of risk behaviors, violence, trauma, abuse, and neglect on children and adolescents.
Module Learning Outcomes (MLOs; B, C, D, G):
(B) Analyze federal and state laws related to child protection, adolescent rights to privacy, and the health and nursing care of special populations of students in school.
(C) Assess mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents as they present barriers to health and academic success.
(D) Apply the principles of health promotion, and cultural competency in reducing barriers to learning for all students.
(G) Apply evidence-based strategies, to facilitate early recognition and interventions to mediate the effects of substance abuse, crisis; violence; health risk behaviors and childhood trauma, in helping students achieve optimum health and academic success.
Alignment of CLOs/MLOs for Module IV:
Module IV: CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/MLOs B, C, D, G,
Module IV Description, Learning Outcomes and Assignment Due Dates
Module IV VoiceThread Discussion Instructions
Reading Requirements
Readings are required to complete the assignments that are due within each module. Please be sure to complete all assigned readings. This will ensure that your work is robust and that it aligns with each of the modular, course and programmatic learning outcomes.
Selekman et al., (2019):
Chapter 31 Student Behavior Assessment & Management (pp. 742-755)
Chapter 32: Students with Mental/Behavioral Health Concerns and Disorders (pp. 756-789)
Bartlett, H. (2015). Can school nurses identify mental health needs early and provide effective advice and support? British Journal of School Nursing, 10(3), 126–134.
Bohnenkamp, J. H., Hoover, S. A., Connors, E. H., Wissow, L., Bobo, N. & Mazyck, D. (2019). The Mental Health Training Intervention for School Nurses and Other Health Providers in Schools. Journal of School Nursing. Online First. Retrieved from https://doi(dot)org/10.1177/1059840518785437
It's a VoiceThread assignment which I will do by reading your response. It's not clear to me what exactly she wants after readings the chapters, maybe a resume of what we read. I sent her a message waiting for her reply. I will load the pages that need to be read.
Thanks.