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School Nurses: 'More Than Band-Aids and Ice'

About 165 school nurses from across Pennsylvania gathered at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute for a conference on school health issues and…

School nurses from across Pennsylvania spent the last two days at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute a conference that dispensed the latest information on school health issues and policies.

About 165 nurses from 32 school districts attended workshops that covered numerous health topics, including discussions about concussions, scoliosis, asthma and arrhythmias, to homeless students, cyberbullying and legal issues. It was the third year the conference, called Voices of School Health, was held at LCTI.

“Being a school nurse is a lot more than just Band-Aids and ice," said Donna Tercha, president of the Lehigh Valley School Nurses Advisory Board, and a nurse in the Catasauqua School District, in a news release.

More than 30 speakers, many from Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke's University Health Network, led workshops. Beth Ann Bahn, director of the Division of School Health in the Pennsylvania Department of Health, was the keynote speaker.

"There are multiple government agencies that govern school nurses and sometimes the regulations can be conflicting among them," Tercha said. 

"[Bahn] really helps us sort out the information and shows us what line to walk."

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