Educators and health care professionals alike recognize the importance of health care planning in the school environment. Our public schools are increasingly burdened with the task of attending to the health of its students. With both parents working in the majority of American households, more children with mild illness are being sent off to school. [...]

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School nursing is a specialty for RNs that carries a number of unique characteristics. As the primary healthcare professional on site, the school nurse plays multiple roles that include providing treatment, health counseling, and developing plans to handle students with special needs.
In most cases, a school nurse’s first encounter with a student involves the onset [...]

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As the role of the school nurse has expanded to include significant health care responsibilities, so has the need for plans to handle specific types of situations and, on occasion, specific students. Today’s school nurse handles the primary health care needs of a number of students, those whose parents cannot afford or do not have [...]

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