Owning the Future of School Nursing

The Role of the School Nurse in the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

“…NASN, in the aftermath of COVID-19, has required 10,000 school nurses and supplies statewide to ensure an adequate return of students to school after the pandemic (Largent, 2022). The Institute of Medicine of the National Report Academies outlines 2020 school nursing goals; professionals are encouraged to achieve higher levels of education, collaborate with healthcare professionals, identify students who lack immunization coverage or who do not have all doses, and inform better data collection (Combe, 2020).…”

“…This helps to build national knowledge of student conditions (Johnson, 2020). The goals for 2020 of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies concern the school nurse, which, in the future, will have to develop better data collection, to understand what are the needs and requirements of students in the US; the data collected by school nurses can inform national, state, and local policies and guide education and health solutions that bring equity and safety to students in the school community (Combe, 2020). Some studies have described the US program created by the NASN, “The National School Health Data Set: Every Student Count!,” an initiative that aims to implement data collection by school nurses (Combe, 2020; Maughan, 2020).…”

“…The goals for 2020 of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies concern the school nurse, which, in the future, will have to develop better data collection, to understand what are the needs and requirements of students in the US; the data collected by school nurses can inform national, state, and local policies and guide education and health solutions that bring equity and safety to students in the school community (Combe, 2020). Some studies have described the US program created by the NASN, “The National School Health Data Set: Every Student Count!,” an initiative that aims to implement data collection by school nurses (Combe, 2020; Maughan, 2020). The use of health data can allow them to be analyzed and compared with each other, as in the study of Banzon and colleagues (2023), in which reading the data obtained from software that grouped the results from national electronic medical records, made it possible to understand how much the risk of developing mental problems in children had increased after the pandemic.…”