This document is an application of the American Nurses' Association's (ANA's) "Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice" (1991) to the specialty of school nursing. It identifies specialty standards of practice for the school nurse subsumed under the standards of clinical practice which apply to all nurses. Chapter One focuses on the ANA standards…

This report contains materials developed by a committee appointed to review school nursing in Wisconsin; to make recommendations directed at the future mission, objectives, and functions of school nursing; and to address the relationship of school nursing certification to these recommendations. Recommendations made to the Wisconsin Department of…

The school nurse should be able to identify the health needs of students and to facilitate remediation of health or handicapping conditions or to assist in adapting the school setting to students' needs. Requirements and activities expected of school nurses in the care of handicapped students are listed. (CJ)

Idaho statutes require that all individuals who have direct responsibility for instruction, personnel services, or administration in elementary or secondary schools, and who receive their salaries from public funds, must be certified by the Idaho State Board of Education before being employed. In this revised version of the certification standards…

Conflicts between educational and medical law and between school policies and the professional ethics and standards of school nurses increasingly lead to professional legal dilemmas related to health data collection, recordkeeping, storage of confidential health information, protection of a student's and/or family's right to confidentiality, and…

The courts are holding that the services that a school district must provide to its handicapped students do not include those that would require a considerable expenditure of additional funds or the hiring of additional staff. (MLF)

This publication provides information concerning Rhode Island laws and Board of Regents regulations governing the certification of professional personnel in the public schools of Rhode Island. These regulations apply to all individuals certified or seeking certification after October 1, 1964. Individuals certified prior to this date and who have…

This study examined one method of delivering care to underserved children: school-based health centers (SBHCs). These centers, located on school grounds, can provide preventative, medical and mental health services to children of that school. Results of the study suggest that SBHCs do improve children's access to health care. SBHCs can help to…