If you view poster in reading view it will be much easier to read due to font size:). I enjoyed discussing the various topics with you all this semester and look forward to hearing from you all next semester!
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My children are now grown and in college. The nurse gives such a comfort for children and parents. As my children were basically healthy. When they did have to go to the nurse for a headache or to take an antibiotic. This gave the children the care they needed and also gave me comfort in knowing my children are well cared for by someone who understands how to handle children and how to give medication.
In the area I live I know that a couple of school systems have “paras” who work in the health room. This bother me to know that there is not a profession to respond to emergencies and to hand the day to day medication administration for children.
I don’t know everything a school nurse does, but I do know that that dealing with children and families can be quite difficulty. From the diagram it appears that school nurses are a combination of a floor nurse, case manager and social worker.
Thank you,Catherine! I agree and it bothers me too that over half of the schools in the U.S. do not have healthcare providers taking care of our little ones. I did read in my research that some nurses travel and cover 2-3 schools. They do extensive training with staff to administer medications and perform other procedures. There is a check off and over 90% of medication and procedures are done correctly after staff has been trained by registered nurse. That makes me feel a little, although I would feel even more better with nurse who knows reactions and other knowledge that helps in these circumstances. Thank you again! Enjoy the rest of your summer.
School nurses, working with pediatric patient-centered medical homes, school physicians, and families, are in a critical position to identify unmet health needs of large populations of children and adolescents in the school setting. Promoting the presence of a qualified school nurse in every school and a school physician in every district fosters the close interdependent relationship between health and education. Academic achievement, improved attendance, and better graduation rates can be a direct result of a coordinated team effort among the medical, family, and educational homes all recognizing that good health and strong education cannot be separated.
AAP Council on School Health. (2016). Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services. Pediatrics, 137(6).
Christan, thank you for the reply. You are exactly correct. I have a passion to work in the community and hopefully assist in improving healthcare and especially health promotion. It is a large task and all stakeholders have to have hands on deck to make the impact I foresee we can make. Thank you for the article link, I will use it:)
Great work on the poster. It was easy to read and very informative.
My youngest starts pre-k in a few weeks and will attend a private school. I realized this semester reading your posts about school nursing that I had not noticed the nurse’s office at her school or even if there was one. You have made me more aware of her new school and the RN there and her role.
I found an estimate that there are about “132,300 self-identified practicing public and private school nurses and 95,800 FTEs (full-time equivalents) of school nurses in the United States” (Willgerodt, 2018). That doesn’t quite seem like enough when you consider how many students there are attending public and private schools in America. As you poster points out, 2.2 schools per nurse seems like a LOT of students for one nurse to oversee.
Willgerodt, M.A., Brock, D.M., Maughan, E.D. (2018) Public School Nursing Practice in the United States. The Journal of School Nursing. 34(3) 232-244. DOI: 10.1177/1059840517752456