This is a brilliant DVD pack looking at testicular cancer for young men. The DVD features famous comedians and sports personalities and highlights a very important message in a fun and accessable way for teenagers.
The pack is available free of charge for all school nurses, on request.
Bog Standard is a campaign to promote better toilets for pupils.
Our 3 aims are:
To increase awareness of the health benefits of better toilets for pupils
To encourage schools to improve the condition of pupils' toilets and to allow pupils to use them when they need to
To get laws that will make pupils' toilets nicer to use
School toilets affect children's physical and psychological health. Toilets which are unpleasant, or out of bounds, can cause serious, long-term health problems.
Parentline plus has a section specifically for health professionals who are working to support families. As well as being able to signpost some of your families you are already working with it may be a useful place to share ideas and get advice too.
School Health is a unique journal for nurses and healthcare professionals working in schools or with school-aged young people. Each issue covers a wide range of practical topics such as asthma, nocturnal enuresis and growth measurement. School Health is only available as part of a subscription to is sister title, Journal of Family Health Care.
All the 2008 issues of School Health are now online and available to any health care professional who registers on the site. The journals are in a 'turn the page' format and the index will take the browser directly to the topic they are interested in.
The Journal of Family Health Care is an independent journal for health visitors, midwives and other healthcare professionals working with babies, infants and young children. Each issue covers topics including nutrition, health issues, feeding, and skin-care, together with the latest news, reviews, conference dates and much more.
HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with children and young people. The website provides practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental wellbeing. It contains 48 topics within 14 sections that cover a wide range of mental health issues ranging from abuse to sleeping difficulties. There are also 25 sets of videos from specialists giving tips and advice. The site is continually evolving: each section has a feedback form, and comments from these forms have resulted in the website team adding or changing information and advice.
For more information please visit the website at www.handsonscotland.co.uk
This recently screened series has an excellent website offering video and sound clips, busy forums and lots of information. Well worth a look and possible signposting older teenagers to.
NICE produces guidelines on many topics that involve school nurses and these can be either downloaded as pdf files or some may be ordered as a hard copy from the website.
Web page from NHSCareers that introduces the role school nurse and describes the experience and knowledge that it is useful to gain before entering this profession.
