School Based Youth Health Nurses Program **NEW**

 

Duration

  • 4 hours

Target Audience

  • Team Member
  • Team Leader
  • Program Leader
  • Senior and Executive Leader
  • All Staff
  • Self-directed
  • Resources

This program/course is accessed via the Learning Library. If you have not previously accessed this resource, you may be required to complete some questions to help support you use the platform. This should only take a few minutes and will give you access to many more resources to support your professional development.

The School Based Youth Health Nurses (SBYHN) Program provides training to safely and effectively practise in the role of a SBYHNwithin Queensland secondary schools. Through five modules and a supporting handbook, learners develop the knowledge and skills to deliver evidence-based health services and health promotion, engage effectively with young people, maintain professional and ethical practice, and support student health and wellbeing across diverse school communities.

  1. Introduction to School Based Youth Health Nursing

  2. Student Engagement

  3. Maintaining Professional Boundaries

  4. Health Promotion for School Based Youth Health Nursing

  5. Offering Enhanced Sexual Health Services

Program objectives:

  • Provide statewide governance around the roles and responsibilities of SBYHNs

  • Create a statewide standard for Professional Boundaries of the SBYHNs

  • Introduce adolescent development in the context of schools

  • Provide an overview of the Statewide enhanced sexual health offerings within Queensland Health

  • Outline and define the Health promotion fundamentals for working with and within the secondary school setting

References to the handbook appear throughout these modules. The handbook is an internal SBYHN resource and is not publicly available. For support or further information, contact NMSBYH.Statewide@health.qld.gov.au

The following resources are available: