Achieving Excellence in School Nursing Practice - Leeds

Leeds, Novotel (next to train station)

The fee for the conference is £260 + vat and includes all tuition, training materials and conference manual as well as a two course lunch and all other refreshments served throughout the day.

This one day conference is packed full of practical ideas, examples of best practice and important updates to enable secondary School Nurses to offer an outstanding service in their schools. The event offers a unique opportunity to hear from and work with a range of recognised school nursing experts and is held in easily accessible top class hotel venues in both the North and South.

• Current policy, recent research and examples of best practice relating to School Nursing
• Important updates on young people’s sexual health
• How to offer effective and accessible sexual health provision in your school
• An overview of young people’s mental health in 2009
• How to promote the emotional health and well-being of children and young people
• A proactive approach to teenage obesity - how to raise awareness, change attitudes and increase teenagers’ self esteem
• The School Nurse’s role in the delivery of PSHE – active learning techniques, ideas for curriculum planning and useful resources

Conference Presenters

Viv Crouch is a school nurse, a young people’s sexual health worker and the lead nurse for the Bath and North East Somerset Teenage Pregnancy Partnership Board. For five years she sat on the Independent Advisory Group to the Cabinet office on Teenage Pregnancy and last year Viv was awarded the MBE for her work with young people. Viv has developed new and innovative ways to help young people make responsible choices about their sexual health. She is involved with Sex and Relationships Education and won an innovation award from the Queen’s Nursing Institute for her Sex and Relationships Education game. Viv travels widely training other professionals working with young people about sexual health issues and is a trainer and mentor for the PSHE certification programme.

Angela Miller-Smith is currently a school nurse at an 11–16 Comprehensive School in Southampton, having trained as an RGN at St Bartholomew Hospital, London and worked as a Community Midwife and staff nurse. Horrified by the poor standard of food consumed by young people in her school, Angela has adopted a highly successful hands-on approach to healthy lifestyle choices, initiating pupil Healthy Proactive Groups, the Sticky Fingers cooking project and a parent support network. Angela is employed directly by her school and has been able to expand and develop her role over the years allowing her to be involved in the planning of whole school policies for healthy living.

Sharon White has been a school nurse for 20 years as well as being an RGN, Midwife and specialist community public health nurse. Sharon was Chair of the UK CPHVA School Nursing Committee and is also a member of the Child Health Promotion Programme (CHPP) for school age children and young people. She is currently UK Professional Officer of SAPHNA, the School and Public Health Nurses Association, which she played a crucial role in establishing. Sharon is a member of the British Journal of School Nursing editorial board and delivers training both nationally and internationally.

Bookings

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