My name is Suellen and l’m the Secondary School Nurse at Hallam Secondary College.
I am available every Thursday and Friday in the wellbeing office. My role is to support the health and wellbeing of students with a focus on health promotion and primary prevention to improve student health, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
I help facilitate awareness days, health education including classroom and small group sessions, and limited primary health care including student assessment, referral and support. I work collaboratively with students, teachers, wellbeing staff, school leadership and school communities to build capacity and improve health outcomes.
I can help students with information, guidance and support through individual health consultations that may include:
- managing stress
- relationships
- safer sex
- smoking, vaping, alcohol and other drug use
- body image
- healthy eating
- cybersafety/cyberbullying
- sexuality/gender identity
As a general rule school nurses do not:
- provide first aid (This is the role of the school’s First Aider)
- undertake long term counselling around psychological, relationship or educational problems
- administer medication