Chapter 37: School Nurse
What are the qualifications to become a school nurse? - correct answer ✔1.
Degree in Nursing
2. BSN
3. School Nurse Certificate
4. Nursing License
What are the roles of a school nurse? - correct answer ✔1. *Provider of
health care*
-Interventions may range from education and screening, to providing direct
care to students with disabilities.
2. *Communicator*
-Needed for the school nurse to work efficiently with the learners, teachers,
parents, and the medical community.
-They provide information inside and outside the classroom.
3. *Planner and coordinator of student health care*
-Children with complex health needs may require home visits and referrals to
resources and that is a responsibility of the school nurse.
-Assessing rapidly changing situations, planning with teachers to address
behavioral issues, evaluating the student/family, talking with physician, etc.
4. *Teacher*
, -Students benefit from health-related information about nutrition, safe
environments, proper rest and exercise, what to do in emergency situations,
etc.
5. *Investigator*
-They collect data from health records, home visits, conferences, etc. to
demonstrate improved school performance in a child.
-School health records, etc.
6. *Role within the profession*
-Committed to looking at school health.
Federal Mandates of School Health - correct answer ✔1. *The Rehabilitation
Act of 1973*: Requires that schools provide "free and appropriate" education
for children with disabilities. Included in this was specially designed classroom
instruction, and additional services such as specialized transportation.
-The school Nurse is a necessary part of special education at schools
attended by *medically fragile children*.
2. In 1975, law broadened the definition of "free and appropriate education" by
bringing children with disabilities into regular classrooms, referred to as
*inclusion or mainstreaming*.
-Focuses on appropriate in-class support to those with educational risks or
disabilities.
3. In 2001, the *No Child Left Behind* act addresses all areas of K-12
education to seek educational equity on the basis of educational opportunity,
rather than on equalized funding.
What are the qualifications to become a school nurse? - correct answer ✔1.
Degree in Nursing
2. BSN
3. School Nurse Certificate
4. Nursing License
What are the roles of a school nurse? - correct answer ✔1. *Provider of
health care*
-Interventions may range from education and screening, to providing direct
care to students with disabilities.
2. *Communicator*
-Needed for the school nurse to work efficiently with the learners, teachers,
parents, and the medical community.
-They provide information inside and outside the classroom.
3. *Planner and coordinator of student health care*
-Children with complex health needs may require home visits and referrals to
resources and that is a responsibility of the school nurse.
-Assessing rapidly changing situations, planning with teachers to address
behavioral issues, evaluating the student/family, talking with physician, etc.
4. *Teacher*
, -Students benefit from health-related information about nutrition, safe
environments, proper rest and exercise, what to do in emergency situations,
etc.
5. *Investigator*
-They collect data from health records, home visits, conferences, etc. to
demonstrate improved school performance in a child.
-School health records, etc.
6. *Role within the profession*
-Committed to looking at school health.
Federal Mandates of School Health - correct answer ✔1. *The Rehabilitation
Act of 1973*: Requires that schools provide "free and appropriate" education
for children with disabilities. Included in this was specially designed classroom
instruction, and additional services such as specialized transportation.
-The school Nurse is a necessary part of special education at schools
attended by *medically fragile children*.
2. In 1975, law broadened the definition of "free and appropriate education" by
bringing children with disabilities into regular classrooms, referred to as
*inclusion or mainstreaming*.
-Focuses on appropriate in-class support to those with educational risks or
disabilities.
3. In 2001, the *No Child Left Behind* act addresses all areas of K-12
education to seek educational equity on the basis of educational opportunity,
rather than on equalized funding.
