Definition
An integrated program using professional Registered Nurses to enhance student success by reducing health barriers that interfere with learning.
Nurses:
- assist schools, communities, and parents
- support a healthy school and engaging learning environment.
- are healthcare professionals in the unique position to bridge academic and health care systems providing continuity of care.
- support developing student's independence in managing their heatlh*.
- use a public health perspective (includes all students, staff, and the environment) providing culturally competent care within the school community to create a healthy teaching and learning climate.
- use a process from assessment through evaluation to address the whole person; helping students, their families and school staff find areas of strengths and concerns.
School Nurses practice in compliance with federal and state laws, and within professional standards defined by state and national school nurse and school health organizations.
School Health Services: and the Systems Necessary to Provide Healthy Student Outcomes explains the laws and standards for school health services.
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*Health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19 June - 22 July 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948. The definition has not been amended since 1948)."