133 Bristol Street · Southington, CT · 06489

860.628.2485

St. Thomas School

Southington

School  Health

Nursing

Services

Southington Board of Education

49 Beecher Street

Southington, CT 06489

School Nursing Supervisor:

Phone: 860-628-3316

Fax: 860-628-3401

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.

The definition reflects the Standards for Professional School Nursing Practice and the ever-changing role of today's school nurse.

The licensed nursing personnel of the Southington School System is comprised of professional Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses who promote and maintain the highest standards of quality  nursing care for students and staff throughout the Southington public, parochial, and private schools in which healthcare services are provided.

Mission

Our  nursing  role as a liaison among students, family, healthcare providers, educators, and support staff fosters each student to achieve his/her highest level of academic success and enables each staff member to maintain an optimal level of wellness.  Components of nursing services include prevention, assessment, intervention, consultation, and evaluation of outcome.  This is achieved by utilizing the nursing process in health care promotion, instruction, counseling, screening, and referrals, and by implementing the procedural aspects of nursing care.

Vision

We are committed to ensuring quality health services to meet the diverse and changing needs of our clients. We strive to excel in promoting and protecting the health and wellness of the individual, family, and community.

The ability to learn is contingent on a student's health and well-being. For this reason, the primary goal of the nursing services is to maximize children's health so that, ultimately, they can achieve their academic potential.

An overview of specific nursing services we provide include:

• Implement health screenings and recommend referrals as indicated for vision, hearing and scoliosis
  

• Prevent transmission of disease through early detection, referral, and compliance with state- mandated immunization requirements
  

• Provide assessment and intervention of student illness and injury
  

• Manage ongoing assessment, intervention, and evaluation of students with chronic illness
  

• Organize, multidisciplinary collaboration with families, administrators, teachers, physicians, other integrated support services, and community resources to promote the health and welfare of students with special health needs
  

• Develop, initiate, and coordinate health care plans to meet students' health needs and include appropriate staff members to implement these plans in school
  

• Implement educational programs and provide health teaching to foster healthy lifestyle practice
  

• Administer medication per MD order
  

• Provide skilled nursing procedures (ex. blood glucose testing, gastrostomy tube feedings)
  

• Promote a safe and healthy school environment for students and staff
  

• Provide systematic, consistent, and confidential documentation of mandated health assessments, sports physicals, medication administration, and care administered in individual student school health records
  

• Incorporate multifaceted nursing role as educator, advocate, and primary on-site resource of student health needs
  

To assist us in meeting your child's health needs, we invite you to contact the nurse at your school with any health concerns or questions you may have.

...Your child's health and wellness are the heart of the nursing services we provide...