VIDEO: Tips for keeping children with type 1 diabetes safe at school
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SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive, Anastasia Albanese-O’Neill, PhD, APRN, RN, CDCES, discusses important resources for schools to better care for children with type 1 diabetes.
Albanese-O’Neill, director of community screening and clinical trial education at JDRF and a Healio | Endocrine Today Editorial Board Member, argues that because children with diabetes spend most of their days in school, afterschool activities or afterschool care, there should be a partnership between the school, parents and the diabetes care team. A diabetes medical management plan should be in place in case of emergencies, and school staffers should have training to support children with diabetes.
“Raise your voice on behalf of that child and on behalf of that family and work with [diabetes] organizations and your colleagues to find ways we can affect change and make sure that we are putting that child with type 1 diabetes first so that they are not at risk at school, at risk for severe lows or highs when they’re on a school field trip, and that they can participate fully in their education,” Albanese-O’Neill told Healio.
Resources for training in schools are available at https://diabetes.org/tools-support/know-your-rights/safe-at-school-state-laws/training-resources-school-staff.
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