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Health Problems In The Classroom Prek-6

by Dolores Huffman, Karen Lee Fontaine, Bernadette K. Price
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Overview

This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide includes detailed information on 130 common disorders, covering signs and symptoms, primary groups affected, attendance guidelines, medications, and much more.

Synopsis

The essential ready reference for today's inclusive classrooms and schools!

Health Problems in the Classroom PreK--6
is the essential resource for today's inclusive classroom, providing concise and practical facts about common health problems, chronic illnesses, and disabilities encountered every day by teachers, teacher aides, and school administrators. This comprehensive, easy-to-use guide includes detailed information on:

  • Signs and symptoms, primary groups affected, attendance guidelines, and medications
  • Communications with parents and caregivers
  • Family and community issues
  • Peer relationships, self-esteem, and stigma
  • Important policies for classroom health procedures such as hand washing, immunizations, and more
  • Specific procedures for coping with cuts and abrasions, allergic reactions, casts, tube feedings, and all "911" medical emergencies

Find coverage of: Asthma, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Fever, Head Lice, Influenza, Mononucleosis, Pink Eye, Poisoning, Spider Bites, Strep Throat, Toothache, Vision Problems, and more than 120 other health problems in one comprehensive guide.

About the Author, Dolores Huffman

Bernadette K. Price, RN, MSN, CMM, is a nurse midwife in private practice. Previously, she had been Associate Professor of Nursing at Purdue University Calumet for 15 years. During her years in education she taught maternity and pediatrics courses as well as a course for elementary education students about health problems in the classroom. During her three decades in nursing, Bernadette has worked with infants, school-age children and adolescents in many different settings including staff nursing in maternity, clinic and office settings, home visits with new families, Healthy Start and Head Start programs and many community education programs. She can be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

 

 

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Book Details

Published
March 1, 2003
Publisher
Corwin Press
Pages
392
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780761945789

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