Term 3 updates

So many School Nurses have let us know how dissatisfied they are with their Pay Rates.

School Nursing pay rates are well below acceptable, and subject to employment conditions that lower the rates further, such as Term Time Only (TTO) Employment, and Annualisation. We want to do something about this, because we are worth it, and young people are also worth it! Our first step is to establish a School Nurses Pay Working Group to collectively advocate for improvements in School Nursing Renumeration. If you're interested in joining the Working Group, please email us! 
 

Happening tomorrow evening (Tuesday), we have over 100 pre-registered participants registered for our Fentanyl Webinar- don't miss out!

The NZ Drug and Alcohol Foundation will present on the current fentanyl climate, and how this may affect SBHS and school communities, with the opportunity for Q and A after the presentation. 

The session is free, and suitable for School Nurses, School Guidance Counsellors, School GPs, Deans, Principals/Senior Management Teams, and anyone else with interest in this space. 
 

7.30pm-8.30pm
9th August, 2022.
 

Last month we hosted the first School Nurse Leaders Hui over zoom with representation from School Nurse Leaders in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Nelson/Marlborough, and Christchurch. It was awesome to have nurse leaders from both health-funded and education-funded roles connecting over the same mahi - driving improvements to support young people through effective School Nursing Services. If you are a School Nurse Leader (eg, School Nurse Education, School Nurse Programme Manager, School Nurse Specialist, Cluster coordinator for an education-funded group of School Nurses) in an area we don't yet have representation in, and you'd like to join our next meeting, please get in touch! 

Clinical Supervision is a life line for many School Nurses who work in isolation. We are developing a NZSN Position Statement on Clinical Supervision - here are a few of our draft recommendations (spoiler alert!)

NZSN recommends: 
 

- Every School Nurse should have access to high quality, individual (one on one), Clinical Supervision on a minimum of a monthly basis 
- Clinical Supervision is ideally delivered by a senior, experienced, compassionate nurse with school nursing expertise and training in delivering Clinical Supervision
- A Clinical Supervisor should not have any line-management responsibility of any of their Supervisees 
- Clinical Supervision should be funded by the employer, and not by the nurse
- Other forms of supervision are encouraged, such as group supervision, peer supervision and cultural supervision 
- Other forms of supervision are not a satisfactory replacement or alternative to Individual Clinical Supervision, but rather a value-add on top of Individual Clinical Supervision. 
 

We are really interested to build more support in this space for school nurses, so if you: 

-have feedback on these draft recommendations,
-want to connect with a Trained School Nurse Clinical Supervisor,
-or want to register with NZSN as a provider of Clinical Supervision and be connected with Clinical Supervision Clients,

then please email us for information, charge rates, and more.