ERIC Number: EJ1471525
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
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ISSN: ISSN-1059-8405
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Diabetes in School Health (DiSH): Telementoring Collaboration between Pediatric Diabetes Specialists and School Nurses to Improve Care of Children with Diabetes
Allison J. Pollock1,2,3; Whitney N. Beaton4; Bobbi A. Burgess3; Santhi N. Logel5; Louise Wilson6; Jolene Eggert Ciha7; Jaclyn Allen8
Journal of School Nursing, v41 n3 p390-397 2025
Rates of diabetes in youth are rising and more than 1 million children have diabetes. School nurses are central to a school-aged child's diabetes care and they must make important moment-to-moment decisions requiring understanding of and comfort with diabetes care and technology. The rapid changes in diabetes care and technology make ongoing education essential, yet access to up-to-date and practical education is limited for many school nurses. Integrating needs data and stakeholders' input, this group developed Diabetes in School Health (DiSH) to address this gap. We adapted a well-established, innovative, and easily-accessible telementoring educational model, Project ECHO, to create a collaborative learning community. In the first year, 9 diabetes experts and >150 school nurses joined live DiSH sessions. DiSH has been well-received by the school community and next steps include expansion of DiSH to other states and study of impact of DiSH on health disparities.
Descriptors: Diabetes, School Health Services, School Nurses, Mentors, Teleconferencing, Expertise, Communities of Practice
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Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin; Colorado
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA; 2University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; 3Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA; 4Pediatric Diabetes, University of Wisconsin Health, American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison, WI, USA; 5Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 6Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, State School Nursing/Health Services Consultant, Madison, WI, USA; 7Pediatric Specialty Clinics, University of Wisconsin Health, American Family Children’s Hospital, Madison, WI, USA; 8Pediatric Diabetes, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA