Purpose and objectives
Purpose
- Expert professional resource
- Support practice by producing guidelines and position statements
- Provide information through accessible IT
- Providing networking opportunities – conferences/training
- Keeping the profile of school nurses high on the political agenda through national and local lobbying
- Representation on national bodies such as Sex Education Forum and Drugs Education Forum
Objectives
2009-2010
- Attendance at national groups – Sex Education Forum and Drugs Education Forum
- Attendance at steering committees a) Thomas Coram research unit re role of school nurse b) Institute of Psychiatry re mental health toolkit for school nurses
- Providing two conferences for members
- Fringe at CYP conference in September 2009
- Summit on school nursing – autumn 2009
2010-2011
- Lobbying with RCN government departments
- Succession planning
- Updating literature produced by school nurse forum
- Maintain links with Boarding Schools Association/MOSA (bid for money to support attendance)