Support for School Nurses Directly Helps Students

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Support for School Nurses Directly Helps Students

All 23 of the BSD school nurses received membership in the National School Nurses Association and the Oregon School Nurses Association with support from BEF.

Thanks to BEF’s support last school year, BSD school nurses’ membership provided vouchers for free eye exams and glasses to 196 students. One BSD nurse said it best, “I am super grateful that BEF invests in nurses and students by paying for our NASN membership.  We have access to a large number of resources such as toolkits and free learning modules.  Vision vouchers save BSD families tens of thousands of dollars a year because after school vision screenings, we are able to  ensure that students can get needed glasses.” 

Membership to the National School Nurses Association and Oregon School Nurses Association provides learning tools and supports that allow BSD school nurses to develop evidence-based systems and standards of practice that support student health, including the areas of communicable disease management, medication administration, cultural responsiveness, mental health, and special education.