School nurses: An investment in student achievement

Maughan, Erin D.

doi:10.1177/0031721718767853

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“…NASN (2017) supports having nurses serve a single school full-time. When assigned to a single school, nurses form strong relationships with students and the community (Maughan, 2018). The consensus of nurses in the study was that more school nurses were needed in rural areas and that by improved staffing, nurses would have more time to address urgent student concerns.…”

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Rural School Nurses Face Challenges in Colorado: A Qualitative Study

Burch

Stoeckel

2021

The Journal of School Nursing

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Rural school nurses are on the front lines of providing health care for children and families in rural Colorado, but there is little research from their perspective. To fill this gap, a descriptive phenomenological study examined the experiences of nine rural school nurses through in-person audiotaped interviews. Analysis of data revealed three main themes: (1) rural school nurses’ efforts to meet students’ extensive physical and mental health issues, (2) school nurses struggle to help rural students in extreme poverty, and (3) communication challenges experienced by rural school nurses. The findings of this study give voice to the experiences and challenges faced by rural school nurses in southern Colorado.

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Rural School Nurses Face Challenges in Colorado: A Qualitative Study

Burch

Stoeckel

2021

The Journal of School Nursing

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“…K-12 schools also provide physical and mental health services to millions of students per year, including vaccinations; management for chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma, or ADHD; sexual and reproductive health education and services; vision, dental, and mental health screenings and services; nutrition health education; and hypertension screening (Baltag et al, 2015). School nurses and counselors are particularly powerful providers of care (Maughan, 2018); recent studies have found that about three-quarters of students who receive any mental health services get them in their schools, for instance, and that students are -21 times more likely to visit school-based health centers for mental health services get them in their schools, for instance, and that students are -21 times more likely to visit school-based health centers for mental health than community mental health centers‖ (Whitaker et al, [2019]). Although the nationwide shortage of nurses has made it hard for schools, like community health centers and hospitals, to maintain adequate staffing levels (Washburn, 2019), U.S. schools still employ approximately 95,800 FTE nurses to serve a population of about 55 million students (Willgerodt, 2018).…”

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School Leaders’ Resilience amidst Pandemic in the District of Victoria

Miguel¹

2021

IJRP

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This study focused on resiliency of school leaders in Victoria District, Laguna, Philippines amidst pandemic. Seventeen elementary and secondary principals became part of the study by undergoing survey questions pertaining to the (1) promotion of community cohesiveness, (2) sustained communication, (3) attention to mental and psychosocial health and, (4) welcoming feedback. The author made use of qualitative and quantitative techniques in doing research as responses to survey questions were recorded, sorted, analyzed and, interpreted. It was found out that school heads of Victoria District have very high resiliency in terms of promotion of community cohesiveness, sustained communication, attention to mental and psychosocial health, and welcoming feedback. School heads promote community cohesion by engaging families and stakeholders in all the school programs and by using various formats during distance learning. Some schools provided unstructured opportunities for small-group connections. To sustain communication among the internal and external stakeholders of the school community, school head gave clear and direct communication using different platforms based on DepEd Orders and memorandums. To combat epidemic, school heads conducted orientations, meetings and webinars for the entire community through social media platforms about mental and psychosocial wellness because when schools clearly prioritized attention to mental health, it greatly enhanced feelings among students and adults that they were genuinely valued. Welcoming feedback was one of the top priorities of school heads to receive a clear response from the community, also both teachers and learners, as they share their feelings and receive specific feedback on what was going well at school and what might be improved. Recommendations to school heads were laid down to sustain their resiliency at all cost.

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“…The impact of these findings on school administration is notable given resource constraints facing many school districts. In Maricopa County as elsewhere, some school nurses are being replaced by health aides and/or volunteers (Maughan, 2018). This coincides with declining immunization rates of school-aged children, sometimes below herd immunity thresholds (Olive, Hotez, Damania, & Nolan, 2018).…”

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Association of Presence of a School Nurse With Increased Sixth-Grade Immunization Rates in Low-Income Arizona Schools in 2014–2015

McCullough

Sunenshine

Rusinak³

et al. 2019

The Journal of School Nursing

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School nurses often play large roles in implementation of school vaccination requirements aimed at controlling the spread of communicable disease. We analyzed the association between the presence of a school nurse and school-level vaccination rates in Arizona. Using school-level data from Arizona sixth-grade schools ( n = 749), we regressed average sixth-grade school-level immunization rates on presence of a school nurse (registered nurse [RN] or licensed practical nurse [LPN]) and school-level socioeconomic status (SES), controlling for other school- and district-level characteristics. Schools with a nurse had higher overall vaccination rates than those without a nurse (96.1% vs. 95.0%, p < .01). For schools in the lowest SES quartile, the presence of a school nurse was associated with approximately 2 percentage point higher immunization rates. These findings add to the growing literature that defines the impact of school nurses on student health status and outcomes, emphasizing the value of school nurses, especially in lower SES schools.

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School nurses: An investment in student achievement

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Rural School Nurses Face Challenges in Colorado: A Qualitative Study

Rural School Nurses Face Challenges in Colorado: A Qualitative Study

School Leaders’ Resilience amidst Pandemic in the District of Victoria

Association of Presence of a School Nurse With Increased Sixth-Grade Immunization Rates in Low-Income Arizona Schools in 2014–2015

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