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Specializes in School Nursing.

There does not seem to be any formal teaching by the school nurse in my district. I'd like to change that. Not sure how though so I wanted to see how you gals (and guys) do it. A Wellness Fair for example? I know some of you have actual teaching responsibilities but I do not.

I'm at an elementary school which has no health class a middle school which does. The health teacher and I have already talked about my presenting to her classes. Now on what and how is where I'm stuck. Never done this before!

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Specializes in School nursing.

Can you talk with your admins about doing some classes with the elementary kids? How I started teaching was pretty simple: I had a friend that works with a sex education curriculum that my school helped develop years ago, asking me if we still taught it. We didn't and I wanted us to. I talked to my admin about seeing if I could help get certified and teach it. They were surprisingly onboard! After a year of teaching 7th and 8th grade, I talked with my HS principal and started developing a HS health curriculum to work with my schedule. I do work in a smaller school, however, and that may make a difference.

But...you may never know if you never ask or dig.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

A couple of years ago, I created newsletters that I try to send home with the students each month!.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

We had an AT that did health classes leave last year. I am developing curriculum for classes. I am starting a 6 part drug abuse unit for MS after break. Looking forward to it, but also wondering how I will be received, I am the fun nurse, not the teacher who wants discipline in class.

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No formal teaching from me. I will go into classrooms talk about handwashing & we have our yearly puberty thing with the 5th graders but that is about all. Once a year we will hold a science night for the kids - I will break out my blacklight and glowing powder kit to demonstrate importance of handwashing but that is about as far as I go.

Last year I teamed up with the other elementary & middle school that feed into our local high school and we all put on a huge wellness fair - we had a great turnout but it was alot of work.

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