School-Based Telehealth

Your school-based telehealth program can significantly improve the health of your whole student body.

School-Based Telehealth Certificate Program

This comprehensive 5.5 hour training program is designed to provide you with the practical knowledge and skills needed to successfully provide telehealth services within your school.

Improve Student Health

A school-based telehealth program can significantly improve the health of the entire student body.

Remove Barriers to Access

Using telehealth within school nursing programs overcomes numerous barriers to access and creates new avenues for prevention and treatment.

Learning Objectives

Describe the steps of planning and creating a strategy for implementing a school-based telehealth program

List key metrics to consider when evaluating a school-based telehealth program

Explain the key regulatory and systematic considerations when launching a school-based telehealth program

Describe how to collaborate internally and externally and effectively market a school-based telehealth program

Explain how to select technology for telehealth

Describe the process of a school-based telehealth consult hosted by a school nurse

Instructors

Loren NixRN, BSN

Loren Nix, RN, BSN, is the Director of School Health Plus with Global Partnership for Telehealth. She has been a registered nurse in Georgia since 1998, receiving her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing. After working two years in the hospital setting, Mrs. Nix transitioned into the role of school nurse where she served for 14 years. In 2009, Mrs. Nix was the first school nurse in the state of Georgia to implement telehealth in her school nurse’s clinic. She joined the GPT team in 2014 and now provides education, support, and training for telehealth implementation to school systems throughout the country.

Raymond BarrettCEO, LMHC, LPC

Raymond Barrett, CEO, LMHC, LPC, is an expert telemental health consultant and instructor. He has assisted many organizations with creating, launching, and enhancing their telehealth programs, developed several courses on telemental health, and provided speaking engagements nationwide. Consultation clients and trainees find Ray to be very approachable, available, and knowledgeable. As a clinician, Ray has extensively provided telemental health counseling services in private practice, for facilities, and an EAP program.

Learn techniques so that you can offer your students the best telehealth program.

School-Based Telehealth