Resources for School Nurses
Resources for School Nurses
Supporting Students with Special Health Care Needs: The School Nurse and the IHP, 504, and IEP
Ready to be a key advocate in shaping IEP, 504, and IHP plans that truly support students’ health and success? This course uses readings, videos, and case scenarios to describe the laws and regulations related …
Team-Based Care Podcast: Health Care Transition
Team-Based Care is a podcast for the interprofessional healthcare team. Produced by the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health – Office of Continuing Professional Development, speakers from different professions explore a topic or theme that is evidence …
What Youth Want Physicians to Know when Treating Them
High school students were asked how they want physicians to talk to them when receiving treatment. The HEADSS framework, a recognized psychosocial interview framework, was used. HEADSS stands for Home, Education, Activities/Alcohol, Drugs/Diet, Sexual Behavior/Self-Esteem, …
To Improve Student Mental Health, Stop Overlooking School Nurses
It’s time to recognize the critical role school medical personnel play in supporting student mental health, a school nurse explains.
Transition Practices in Wisconsin Health Care Systems: What Do We Know?
The transition from youth to adult health care is a complex process, and only 25% of all youth and less than 35% of youth with special health care needs in Wisconsin receive support. Objectives: This …
Wisconsin School Nurse Updates Compiled (HCT Articles)
Wisconsin Youth Health Transition Initiative (YHTI) has partnered with Wisconsin DPI School Nursing and Health Services to provide regular articles on Health Care Transition focused on supporting School Nurses. Articles have been compiled together through …
Conversations: School Nurses and Transition Planning (March 2023)
How can School Nurses be a part of Transition Planning? March 22, 2023 Louise Wilson, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction School Nurse Consultant, joins Tim Markle to talk about the overall role of school nurses …
School Nurse Documentation in Career and College Ready IEPs
Part one of this brief summarizes where school nurses document how a student’s health impacts their learning and education under IDEA. Part two of this School Nursing and Health Services Consultant for the Wisconsin Department …
School Nurses Info Sheet on Health Care Transition
A one-page information sheet highlighting current statistics for health care transition, strategies for school nurses to make a difference, and links to resources. Download a .pdf at HCTSchoolnursesinfosheet7.31.24
Stay A Step Ahead Brochure
A brochure summarizing the steps in healthcare transition. Available in English and Spanish. To request print copies, contact healthtransitionwi@waisman.wisc.edu.
Health care transition for children with medical complexity: Challenges and lessons learned
An article from the Journal of Pediatric Nursing published in 2021. Describes the Complex Care Program’s evaluation of its practices prior to 2019 and efforts to standardize transition guidance, planning, and documentation within the Program …
Trainings
Trainings for Health Care Providers
An Introduction to Youth Health Transition video
This recording provides an overview of the healthcare transition process.
Closing the Gap: A Basic Overview of Youth to Adult Healthcare Transition
Introduces healthcare professionals to the concept of healthcare transition with a focus on children and youth with special healthcare needs. Attendees will learn about the status of healthcare transition work in Wisconsin; including barriers, strategies, …
Closing the Gap: A Healthcare Provider’s Guide to Working with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Learn communication, motor, sensory, and behavioral strategies to improve the care of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Identify environmental changes you can make in your practice setting to reduce challenging behaviors in people with …
Closing the Gap: Implementing Got Transition’s® Six Core Elements
Helps healthcare providers assess transition within their practices and plan for improvement using Got Transition’s® Six Core Elements. This training takes 20-40 minutes to complete and is tailored to meet the specific needs of the …
Closing the Gap: Guardianship and Supported Decision-Making: What Health Professionals Need to Know
This provider training describes decision-making tools available to promote autonomy for youth and young adults with special healthcare needs, with a primary focus on Supported Decision-Making. Learn about resources to assist your transition-aged patients make …
More Resources
Eight Important Tools for a successful transition to adult healthcare
The Youth Health Transition Initiative has identified 8 tools for families and youth. Careful planning using these tools will help transition go more smoothly and cause less stress for families.
Supported Decision-Making and Alternatives to Guardianship
Learn more about the options available for supporting healthcare decisions for adults with disabilities or special healthcare needs.
Healthcare Transition Stories
Hear the experiences of young adults and their families as they transitioned to adult healthcare.
Got Transition Website
Got Transition® is the federally funded national resource center on health care transition (HCT). Its aim is to improve the transition from pediatric to adult health care through the use of evidence-driven strategies for clinicians and other health care professionals; public health programs; payers and plans; youth and young adults; and parents and caregivers.
Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities
The Center for Transition to Adult Health Care for Youth with Disabilities is a national health care transition resource center. The goal of the center is to empower youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) ages 12-26 to direct their own transition from pediatric to adult care with no reduction in quality of care and no gaps in service.
Children's Resource Centers
Wisconsin has five Children's Resource Centers (formerly Regional Centers) devoted to supporting families with children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) and the providers who serve them.
Community Discussion: Tim Markle & the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project (WITPP)
A podcast focused on the ins and outs (and everything in between) of the secondary transition process for families of students with disabilities! Hosts Meghan (Smallwood) and Patrick (Cadigan) serve as supportive guides, leading families step-by-step up each rung of the transition ladder. This week, hosts Meghan (Smallwood) and Patrick (Cadigan) jump states to sit down with Tim Markle and discuss the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project (WITPP). That collaboration brings together self-advocates, family members, and professionals with the goal of improving transition for young adults with disabilities, including advocating for a greater understanding and say in healthcare transition. Join the conversation!
Resources from the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project
Resources developed and gathered by our sister project, the Wisconsin Integrated Transition Planning Project.
Team-based Care: Health Care Transition
Welcome to Team-Based Care, a podcast for the interprofessional healthcare team produced by the Office of Continuing Professional Development at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
This podcast is approved for continuing education credit. In this episode of Team-Based Care, we will discuss Health Care Transition. Our guest host for this episode is Tim Markle, Director WI Youth Health Transition (YHTI) and Outreach Program Manager, Children's Resource Center-South. Our speakers are Dr. Heather Peto and Laura Vergenz, RN. Dr. Peto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is also a Hospitalist in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UW Hospital and Clinics and American Family Children's Hospital. Laura Vergenz, is a RN nurse and a Doctor of Nursing Practice student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing.