Resources for School Nurses

Vision Screening Tutorial

 AAPOS has proudly partnered with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) to develop resources to promote school vision screening and to disseminate information about common eye diseases in children.

Kathy Lee, MD developed a Vision Screening Tutorial for the AAO's Leadership Development Program which NASN and AAPOS are proud to present. The video is designed as a resource for school nurses about how to screen vision and why it's important. Excerpts from the program are found below. The full tutorial can be found here.

Kathy Lee, MD spoke about Efficient and Effective School Vision Screening at this year's NASN National Convention. Download the presentation here.

Video tutorials from the presentation:

• Why We Do It (vision screening)
• Why We Do It 2
• Photoscreener
• Performance Enhancers
• Monocular Testing
• Optotype Presentation
• The Lewis Family

Nurse PowerPoint Lecture

The PowerPoint lecture presented at the School Nurse Symposium at the 2010 AAPOS Annual Meeting is now available and is entitled:

Pediatric Ophthalmology for School Nurses: What You Need to Know.

The lecture is approximately 90 minutes in duration and includes 3 talks:
-Common Causes of Red Eye in the Pediatric Population by Jane C. Edmond MD
-Reading, Dyslexia and Vision by Sheryl M. Handler, MD
-Vision Screening and Vision Screening Devices by Dan E. Neely, MD

How can you reach out to your school nurses? Email Jane Edmond, MD (jedmond@bcm.edu) for advice for creating an educational program and identifying potential sponsoring organizations.

AAPOS recognizes and rewards these initiatives.  An honor point is available to those who lecture to school nurses in a formal setting.   Please contact Jennifer Hull (aapos@aao.org) for more information or refer to the AAPOS Policy and Procedure manual.