School Nurse
School nurses work to promote a healthy school environment. Beyond promoting health and safety for students within the school facility during the school day, they also encourage students to maintain healthy habits and behaviors when they are not in school. These nursing professionals are also responsible for identifying both actual and potential health problems, providing case management services, and collaborating with educators, school officials, students, and families to ensure students respond positively to their environment and develop normally. Because healthy children are successful learners, school nurses advocate for the physical, emotional, mental, and social health of students.
Using their clinical knowledge and judgment, school nurses routinely perform the following duties and not limited to:
- Perform health screenings.
- Coordinate referrals to private healthcare providers.
- Serve as liaisons between school personnel, family, and community healthcare providers to ensure a healthy school environment.
- Providing health-related education to students and staff in both individual and group settings.
- Monitoring immunizations, managing communicable diseases and assessing the school environment to prevent injury and ensure safety.
- Overseeing infection control measures.
- Overseeing medication administration, health care procedures, and the development of healthcare plans.
- Overseeing vision, hearing, body mass index, and mental health screening procedures.
- Making decisions related to the delegation of healthcare tasks as directed by state laws and professional practice guidance.
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