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California School Nurse Survey
… obtain evidence to support the assumption that school nurses have a positive effect on school attendance and medication administration practices and to hear the voice of the California school nurse. Data from this exploratory, descriptive study came from an online researcher developed survey …
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A Survey of the Practices of the School Nurse in Texas
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A Quality Improvement School Nurse Self-Assessment Tool For School Nursing Practice
<p>School nurses play a critical role in promoting student health and supporting academic success. The goal of this project was to develop a school nurse self-assessment tool (SN-SAT) for school nurses to evaluate their school nursing practice. The self-assessment tool was constructed based on the …
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School Nurse Perceptions and Decisions about Children Self-Carrying Inhalers in School
… students to self-carry rescue inhalers in the school setting. Many organizations are stakeholders in respiratory issues, school health issues, and pediatric issues, recommending the support of this practice. Students’ ability to self-carrying rescue inhalers in the school setting has been …
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Visits to the School Nurse by the At-Risk Student Versus the Non At-Risk Student
… difference in proportion of visits to the school nurse. Procedure: For each initial health related daily visit to the school nurse by students in grades kindergarten through twelfth, a mark was placed in an "at-risk" column or a "non at -risk" column. The at-risk students were determined …
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Exploring school nurse workload through the lived experiences of school nurses caring for students kindergarten through fifth grade
School nurses support the needs of healthy students, those with chronic diseases, all from diverse racial and ethnic groups. Current nurse-to-student ratios, or caseloads, do not fully capture the extent of their work. The aim of this transcendental phenomenological study is to acquire …
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The Relationships Among School Nurse to Student Ratios, Self-efficacy for Type 1 Diabetes Management, and Glycemic Control in Adolescents
… self-management in the adolescent.</p> <p>School nurses are in a unique position to influence self-efficacy for type 1 diabetes management in adolescents. Although previous research has shown that school nurses positively influence student health outcomes in a variety of ways, there is …
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An Exploration of School Nurses' Perspectives in Caring for Homeless Children
… to explore the experiences and perceptions of school nurses working with homeless, elementary school-aged children. The researcher employed purposive sampling to recruit participants from members of the National Association of School Nurses. Recruiting was supplemented by snowball sampling. …
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"No One Died Today:" A Naturalistic Inquiry into the Perceptions and Experiences of School Nurses Dealing with Adolescents who Self-Harm
… incidence of self harm among middle and high school age adolescents. The school nurse (SN) is in a position to recognize this behavior (Cooke & James, 2009), but little is known about the school nurse’s perceptions and experiences related to adolescents who engage in self harming behaviors. …
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California School Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Intention to Participate in Sexuality Education
… required by law, nor is there evidence to link school nurses as teachers or consultants in sexuality education (SE). The purpose of this study is to describe the degree of knowledge, attitude, and subjective norm with intent to participate in SE. Three articles evolved from the dissertation: 1) …
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The development and psychometric testing of the shared decision-making instrument
… on HPV vaccine receipt and have excluded the school nurse who regularly manages the healthcare of females between 11 and 12 years of age. To fill this gap in knowledge, the aim of this research was to develop a psychometrically sound, theoretically based instrument to assess the four Shared …
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The role of school nurses and chronic illness
… social and educational life. The role of the school nurse should be to ease the stresses that the illness is having on the child. There are many techniques that have been shown to help reduce the child's stress and improve their understanding of their illness. However, not all nurses seem to …
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The consultation relationship as a complex partnership: experiences of psychological consultation in Atlantis
… qualitative analysis of consultation with a school nurse and a mental health worker in Atlantis is discussed. Atlantis, a coloured town situated 48 kilometres from Cape Town along the west coast, is a remnant of Apartheid's separate development policy. A thematic analysis of the consultation …
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Involvement of transition-age students with severe disabilities in their health care at school
… in specialized health care procedures at school for transition-age students with complex health care needs and severe disabilities. To investigate how students were involved, and beliefs about their involvement, a basic qualitative methodology that incorporated ethnographic and …
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Opening doors : identifying factors that influence students’ use of pastoral care and school-based health services related to tobacco and other harmful drug use
… control.However, each year a new generation of school students will experiment with smoking,increasing their chance of initiation (Warner, Jacobson, & Kaufman, 2003). It istherefore vital to develop alternative strategies to continue to reduce the level ofsmoking among adolescents, especially as …
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Increasing the Awareness of Trauma Informed Care in the School Setting: Giving Practitioners the Tools to Actively Participate in Trauma Related Care
… age 16 (Suarez, Belcher, Briggs, & Titus, 2012). School health practitioners have regular contact with children and adolescents as they typically attend school five days a week, nine months out of the year. The consistent presence of the relationship between the practitioner and student creates an …
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