Managing Severe Allergies in Schools

Training on allergen aviodance, risk assessment and the use of adrenaline auto-injectors.

Seminar Date & Time: Friday 21st May 2010, 13.00 - 13.45

Speaker: Sue Clarke, School Nurse Adviser to The Anaphylaxis Campaign

Full Synopsis:

With nut and other severe allergies growing at an alarming rate, there are few schools without at least one pupil at risk of anaphylaxis.  Senior child and family nurse, Sue Clarke, who advises the Anaphylaxis Campaign, will deliver training on allergen avoidance, risk assessment and the use of adrenaline auto-injectors.

Sue Clarke is a School Nurse Adviser to The Anaphylaxis Campaign and works as a Practice Nurse specialising in allergy and asthma. Until recently, Sue worked as a Health Visitor /School Nurse in Cambridgeshire, where she was the lead nurse for anaphylaxis. She has been the Nurse Advisor to the Anaphylaxis Campaign since 1995, and developed their school nurse training programme in 2005. She has been training nurses how to manage severe allergies in schools on the national roll out of this programme for the last three years, and has helped to develop the course for e-learning.