As the only school nurse at this suburban Washington, D.C., elementary school, Bobbitt's responsibilities extend beyond treating scraped knees and sniffles for the school's 600 pupils.

As a school nurse in the Indian River School District, Stacy Robinson has applied her fair share of band-aids; she’s handed out ice packs and dealt with lice. But the scope of the school nurse is far ...

At a time when more than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition and the US is facing a a youth mental health crisis, only about around 40% of ...

School nurses manage medications, provide first aid and care for students with chronic illnesses like diabetes, asthma and life-threatening allergies. They also play a critical role in supporting ...

School and district leaders can start by educating their communities on how students’ physical wellbeing connects to their ability to learn—and, therefore, how nurses are key to students ...

In the middle of the 2022-2023 school year, Massachusetts had nearly 300 open positions for school nurses, a number representing more than 10 percent of the state’s entire school nurse employees.

APRN Scope of Practice Extending full scope of practice to nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary care increases healthcare access, but research examining barriers to NP practice has been limited. A ...

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s not that they don’t do those ...

"The school nurse scope of practice is not enough to treat some minor acute illnesses," said Dawn Brennan, a nurse practitioner at the school based health center at the Dr. Freddie Thomas Learning ...

During a special meeting Wednesday night, the board voted 6-0 to terminate the employment of the registered nurse at Westgate Elementary School for “gross misconduct committed outside the scope ...

Nurses in the North Allegheny School District continue to see an increase of students and staff to their offices annually, with visits this school year already up by 2,500 as of January. In fact ...