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Exam 2 Review Community Health
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Exam 2 Review Community Health
Roles of a school nurse
[Chapter 30: School Health]
●To systematically continue with assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, and
evaluation of student health needs
●Clinician. Educator. Advocate
●School nurses are seeing an increase in the number of children because they lack
a source of medical care
○Dental cavities are the most common complaints of school-aged kids
○Obesity and diabetes-related health problems are increasing
●The presence of school nurses decrease absenteeism by 50% (proven by Lilian
Wald)
●School nurses can perform screenings
○Blood Pressure: Height & Weight: Scoliosis: Visual & Hearing Acuity
●School nurses can provide education
○The Temperance movement led school nurses to teach about the effects of
alcohol and tobacco
○Address important health concerns such as asthma because of its
severity and prevalence as one of the most common chronic childhood
conditions
○Prevention programs should first be taught to elementary grade
students
○Sexual education and teaching teenagers that they are less likely to
complete high school and may end up living in poverty
●School nurses can administer medications
○ADHD medications are the most common, but they can also give
analgesics and antipyretics, antacids, antitussives, anticonvulsants,
antiemetics and antidiarrheals, antifungals, antihistamines, and
antibiotics
●The school nurse must understand that disabled students have a right to an
environment that is least restrictive as possible
●The school nurse may sometimes have to act as a counselor and confidante
Role of a nurse in spiritual health
●Needs to be able to conduct a spiritual assessment; recognized the difference between
religious and spiritial needs; identify appropriate spiritual care interventions; and
determine what is appropriate to deliver spiritual care.
Faith-Based Nurse
[Chapter 33: Faith Community Nursing]
●Faith community nurses must be independent and self-directed to be
successful
●The practice is Judeo-Christian based, but they work with people of all faiths
●Integrator of faith and healing: discusses spiritual needs of the client
●Roles (need to know)
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