Impact of an Education Intervention on Missouri K‐12 School Disaster and Biological Event Preparedness

Abstract

The education intervention was effective at improving school preparedness, though the impact was small. The education intervention needs to be reassessed, especially in regard to providing a longer intervention period.

Impact of Education on School Nurses' Knowledge of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

“…Given that children and adolescents spend a large portion of time at school, school nurses, who stand on the front lines of medicine at schools, may play an essential role in managing students’ various medical conditions. Several studies have evaluated the efficacy of an educational intervention on emergency, disaster or biological event preparedness for school nurses and shown that education significantly improved school nurse pre-paredness with respect to knowledge and skills 20,21. However, no prior studies have determined school nurses’ awareness of IBD and assessed the impact of education on this awareness.…”

Exploring School Nurse Interventions and Health and Education Outcomes: An Integrative Review

“…School nurses attended continuing education on the overall health of students diagnosed with asthma and training to conduct assessments, use equipment (e.g., peak flow meters), and implement action plans (Carpenter et al, 2013;Francisco, Rood, Nevel, Foreman, & Homan, 2017;Putman-Casdorph & Pinto, 2011;Staudt, Alamgir, Long, Inscore, & Wood, 2015). Other studies included education for school nurses about food allergies (Chokshi, Patel, & Davis, 2015), adolescent relationship abuse and how to integrate discussions of healthy/unhealthy relationships in each student encounter (Raible et al, 2017), school preparedness for biological events (Rebmann, Elliott, Artman, VanNatta, & Wakefield, 2016), how to support students as they return to the classroom (i.e., return to learn) after concussions (Wing, Amanullah, Jacobs, Clark, & Merritt, 2015), recognizing children at risk for maltreatment (Jordan, MacKay, & Woods, 2017), and improving communication with families on weight-related health issues through a web-based tutorial (Steele, Wu, Cushing, & Jensen, 2013). School nurses also assisted with creating an education module about food allergies for school staff (White et al, 2016) and provided recommendations for education on collaboration with interdisciplinary staff as well as conducting mandated screenings to provide care for students with disabilities (Singer, 2013).…”

Using an Emergency Plan to Combat Teacher Burnout Following a Natural Hazard

“…Existing evidence, however, suggests that school emergency plans frequently do not incorporate lessons from experts. For example, a survey of school nurses found that schools reported having fewer than half of the preparedness indicators for a biological event (Rebmann et al, 2015). It should be noted that research showed that schools in Los Angeles, California were more likely to comply with state-mandated standardized emergency management systems since they were routinely impacted by disasters (Kano et al, 2007).…”