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[Powerrrr]

Never been in a school with a school nurse. Probably better to teach the teacher basic medic skill.

[iargue]

Lawl. Epiz debate.

[artificial]

School nurses are very effective at getting children into healthy eating habits and are vital in the fight against childhood obesity. The problem is that there simply aren't enough of them. Government pledges to ensure that every child has access to a school nurse require serious attention.

It's great to see results for the role school nurses play in educating Britain's children. TV advertising campaigns cannot work alone and children must learn in school about the importance of healthy eating and exercise in order for the information to stick.

In 2005 the Government White Paper for Health: Choosing Health: making healthy choices easier pledged by 2010 "to have at least one full-time, year-round, qualified school nurse working with each cluster or group of primary schools and the related secondary school".

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the voice of nursing across the UK and is the largest professional union of nursing staff in the world. The RCN promotes the interest of nurses and patients on a wide range of issues and helps shape healthcare policy by working closely with the UK Government and other national and international institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.

School nurses save lives. Here's what school nurses do. They:

* provide direct health care to students and staff;

* provide leadership for the provision of health services;

* provide screening and referral for health conditions;

* promote a healthy school environment;

* promote health;

* serve in a leadership role for health policies and programs;

* serve as a liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers.

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses try to facilitate positive student responses to normal human development; promote health and safety in the school environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from birth to death.

Nurses work in a large variety of specialties where they work independently and as part of a team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care. Nursing Science is an established field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientist through peer reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice. It is a dynamic field of practice and research that is based in contemporary culture and concerns itself with both mainstream and marginalized subcultures in order to deliver the most culturally sensitive and competent nursing care.

The authority for the practice of nursing is based upon a social contract that delineates professional rights and responsibilities as well as mechanisms for public accountability. In almost all countries, nursing practice is defined and governed by law, and entrance to the profession is regulated at national or state level.

The aim of the nursing community worldwide is for its professionals to ensure quality care for all, while maintaining their credentials, code of ethics, standards, and competencies, and continuing their education.[6] There are a number of educational paths to becoming a professional nurse, which vary greatly worldwide, but all involve extensive study of nursing theory and practice and training in clinical skills.

Nurses care for individuals who are healthy and ill, of all ages and cultural backgrounds, and who have physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs. The profession combines physical science, social science, nursing theory, and technology in caring for those individuals.

In order to work in the nursing profession, all nurses hold one or more credentials depending on their scope of practice and education. A Licensed practical nurse (LPN) (also referred to as a Licensed vocational nurse, Registered practical nurse, Enrolled nurse, and State enrolled nurse) works independently or with a Registered nurse. The most significant differentiation between an LPN and RN is found in the requirements for entry to practice, which determines entitlement for their scope of practice, for example in Canada an RN requires a bachelors degree and a LPN requires a 2 year diploma. A Registered nurse (RN) provides scientific, psychological, and technological knowledge in the care of patients and families in many health care settings. Registered nurses may also earn additional credentials or degrees enabling them to work under different titles (Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Registered Nurse First Assistant, etc.).

Nurses may follow their personal and professional interests by working with any group of people, in any setting, at any time. Some nurses follow the traditional role of working in a hospital setting.

Nursing practice is primarily the caring relationship between the nurse and the person in their care. In providing nursing care, nurses are implementing the nursing care plan, which is based on a nursing assessment.
[edit] Definition

Although nursing practice varies both through its various specialities and countries, these nursing organizations offer the following definitions

Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.

— International Council of Nurses [6]

The use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with health problems, and to achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death."

—Royal College of Nursing UK [8]

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals, families, communities, and populations.

—American Nurses Association[9]

The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge.

Practice settings

Nurses practice in a wide range of settings, from hospitals to visiting people in their homes and caring for them in schools to research in pharmaceutical companies. Nurses work in occupational health settings (also called industrial health settings), free-standing clinics and physician offices, nurse-run clinics, long-term care facilities and camps. They also work on cruise ships and in military service. Nurses act as advisers and consultants to the health care and insurance industries. Some are attorneys and others work with attorneys as legal nurse consultants, reviewing patient records to assure that adequate care was provided and testifying in court. Nurses can work on a temporary basis, which involves doing shifts without a contact in a variety of settings, sometimes known as [[per diem nursing]], agency nursing / travel nursing. Nurses work as researchers in laboratories, universities and research institutions.
[edit] Work Environment

Internationally, there is a serious shortage of nurses.[11] One reason for this shortage is due to the work environment in which nurses practice. In a recent review of the empirical human factors and ergonomic literature specific to nursing performance, nurses were found to work in generally poor environmental conditions. DeLucia, Ott, & Palmieri (2009) concluded, "the profession of nursing as a whole is overloaded because there is a nursing shortage. Individual nurses are overloaded. They are overloaded by the number of patients they oversee. They are overloaded by the number of tasks they perform. They work under cognitive overload, engaging in multitasking and encountering frequent interruptions. They work under perceptual overload due to medical devices that do not meet perceptual requirements (Morrow et al., 2005), insufficient lighting, illegible handwriting, and poor labeling designs. They work under physical overload due to long work hours and patient handling demands which leads to a high incidence of MSDs. In short, the nursing work system often exceeds the limits and capabilities of human performance. HF/E research should be conducted to determine how these overloads can be reduced and how the limits and capabilities of performance can be accommodated. Ironically, the literature shows that there are studies to determine whether nurses can effectively perform tasks ordinarily performed by physicians. Results indicate that nurses can perform such tasks effectively. Nevertheless, already overloaded nurses should not be given more tasks to perform. When reducing the overload, it should be kept in mind that underloads also can be detrimental to performance (Mackworth, 1948). Both overloads and underloads are important to consider for improving performance." [12]
[edit] Regulation of practice

The practice of nursing is governed by laws that define a scope of practice, generally mandated by the legislature of the country or area within which the nurse practices. Nurses are held legally responsible and accountable for their practice. The standard of care is that of the "prudent nurse."

Nursing is the most diverse of all healthcare professions. Nurses practice in a wide range of settings but generally nursing is divided depending on the needs of the person being nursed.

The major divisions are:-

* the nursing of people with mental health problems - Psychiatric and mental health nursing
* the nursing of people with learning or developmental disabilities - Learning disability nursing (UK)
* the nursing of children - Pediatric nursing.
* the nursing of older adults - Geriatric nursing
* the nursing of people in acute care and long term care institutional settings.
* the nursing of people in their own homes - Home health nursing (US), District nursing and Health visiting (UK). See also Live-in nurse

There are also specialist areas such as cardiac nursing, orthopedic nursing, palliative care, perioperative nursing and oncology nursing, or the specialization to cancer.







That is why we need school nurses.

[stirlingL]

here in aus we dont have school nurses , never have. just a sick bay which is ran by whatever teacher is free haha

[Lineage]

That is why we need school nurses.

..Did you really write up a huge essay for a board on Neocodex?

[luvsmyncis]

School nurses are very effective at getting children into healthy eating habits and are vital in the fight against childhood obesity. The problem is that there simply aren't enough of them. Government pledges to ensure that every child has access to a school nurse require serious attention.

It's great to see results for the role school nurses play in educating Britain's children. TV advertising campaigns cannot work alone and children must learn in school about the importance of healthy eating and exercise in order for the information to stick.

In 2005 the Government White Paper for Health: Choosing Health: making healthy choices easier pledged by 2010 "to have at least one full-time, year-round, qualified school nurse working with each cluster or group of primary schools and the related secondary school".

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the voice of nursing across the UK and is the largest professional union of nursing staff in the world. The RCN promotes the interest of nurses and patients on a wide range of issues and helps shape healthcare policy by working closely with the UK Government and other national and international institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.

School nurses save lives. Here's what school nurses do. They:

    * provide direct health care to students and staff;
      
    * provide leadership for the provision of health services;
      
    * provide screening and referral for health conditions;
      
    * promote a healthy school environment;
      
    * promote health;
      
    * serve in a leadership role for health policies and programs;
      
    * serve as a liaison between school personnel, family, community, and health care providers.

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses try to facilitate positive student responses to normal human development; promote health and safety in the school environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and learning.

Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from birth to death.

Nurses work in a large variety of specialties where they work independently and as part of a team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care. Nursing Science is an established field of knowledge based on the contributions of nursing scientist through peer reviewed scholarly journals and evidenced-based practice. It is a dynamic field of practice and research that is based in contemporary culture and concerns itself with both mainstream and marginalized subcultures in order to deliver the most culturally sensitive and competent nursing care.

The authority for the practice of nursing is based upon a social contract that delineates professional rights and responsibilities as well as mechanisms for public accountability. In almost all countries, nursing practice is defined and governed by law, and entrance to the profession is regulated at national or state level.

The aim of the nursing community worldwide is for its professionals to ensure quality care for all, while maintaining their credentials, code of ethics, standards, and competencies, and continuing their education.[6] There are a number of educational paths to becoming a professional nurse, which vary greatly worldwide, but all involve extensive study of nursing theory and practice and training in clinical skills.

Nurses care for individuals who are healthy and ill, of all ages and cultural backgrounds, and who have physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs. The profession combines physical science, social science, nursing theory, and technology in caring for those individuals.

In order to work in the nursing profession, all nurses hold one or more credentials depending on their scope of practice and education. A Licensed practical nurse (LPN) (also referred to as a Licensed vocational nurse, Registered practical nurse, Enrolled nurse, and State enrolled nurse) works independently or with a Registered nurse. The most significant differentiation between an LPN and RN is found in the requirements for entry to practice, which determines entitlement for their scope of practice, for example in Canada an RN requires a bachelors degree and a LPN requires a 2 year diploma. A Registered nurse (RN) provides scientific, psychological, and technological knowledge in the care of patients and families in many health care settings. Registered nurses may also earn additional credentials or degrees enabling them to work under different titles (Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Registered Nurse First Assistant, etc.).

Nurses may follow their personal and professional interests by working with any group of people, in any setting, at any time. Some nurses follow the traditional role of working in a hospital setting.

Nursing practice is primarily the caring relationship between the nurse and the person in their care. In providing nursing care, nurses are implementing the nursing care plan, which is based on a nursing assessment.
[edit] Definition

Although nursing practice varies both through its various specialities and countries, these nursing organizations offer the following definitions

    Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.

    — International Council of Nurses [6]

    The use of clinical judgement in the provision of care to enable people to improve, maintain, or recover health, to cope with health problems, and to achieve the best possible quality of life, whatever their disease or disability, until death."

    —Royal College of Nursing UK [8]

    Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals, families, communities, and populations.

    —American Nurses Association[9]

    The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge.

Practice settings

Nurses practice in a wide range of settings, from hospitals to visiting people in their homes and caring for them in schools to research in pharmaceutical companies. Nurses work in occupational health settings (also called industrial health settings), free-standing clinics and physician offices, nurse-run clinics, long-term care facilities and camps. They also work on cruise ships and in military service. Nurses act as advisers and consultants to the health care and insurance industries. Some are attorneys and others work with attorneys as legal nurse consultants, reviewing patient records to assure that adequate care was provided and testifying in court. Nurses can work on a temporary basis, which involves doing shifts without a contact in a variety of settings, sometimes known as [[per diem nursing]], agency nursing / travel nursing. Nurses work as researchers in laboratories, universities and research institutions.
[edit] Work Environment

Internationally, there is a serious shortage of nurses.[11] One reason for this shortage is due to the work environment in which nurses practice. In a recent review of the empirical human factors and ergonomic literature specific to nursing performance, nurses were found to work in generally poor environmental conditions. DeLucia, Ott, & Palmieri (2009) concluded, "the profession of nursing as a whole is overloaded because there is a nursing shortage. Individual nurses are overloaded. They are overloaded by the number of patients they oversee. They are overloaded by the number of tasks they perform. They work under cognitive overload, engaging in multitasking and encountering frequent interruptions. They work under perceptual overload due to medical devices that do not meet perceptual requirements (Morrow et al., 2005), insufficient lighting, illegible handwriting, and poor labeling designs. They work under physical overload due to long work hours and patient handling demands which leads to a high incidence of MSDs. In short, the nursing work system often exceeds the limits and capabilities of human performance. HF/E research should be conducted to determine how these overloads can be reduced and how the limits and capabilities of performance can be accommodated. Ironically, the literature shows that there are studies to determine whether nurses can effectively perform tasks ordinarily performed by physicians. Results indicate that nurses can perform such tasks effectively. Nevertheless, already overloaded nurses should not be given more tasks to perform. When reducing the overload, it should be kept in mind that underloads also can be detrimental to performance (Mackworth, 1948). Both overloads and underloads are important to consider for improving performance." [12]
[edit] Regulation of practice

The practice of nursing is governed by laws that define a scope of practice, generally mandated by the legislature of the country or area within which the nurse practices. Nurses are held legally responsible and accountable for their practice. The standard of care is that of the "prudent nurse."

Nursing is the most diverse of all healthcare professions. Nurses practice in a wide range of settings but generally nursing is divided depending on the needs of the person being nursed.

The major divisions are:-

    * the nursing of people with mental health problems - Psychiatric and mental health nursing
    * the nursing of people with learning or developmental disabilities - Learning disability nursing (UK)
    * the nursing of children - Pediatric nursing.
    * the nursing of older adults - Geriatric nursing
    * the nursing of people in acute care and long term care institutional settings.
    * the nursing of people in their own homes - Home health nursing (US), District nursing and Health visiting (UK). See also Live-in nurse

There are also specialist areas such as cardiac nursing, orthopedic nursing, palliative care, perioperative nursing and oncology nursing, or the specialization to cancer.



That is why we need school nurses.

Goodness me... hee heee... oh my... 

[iloveorange]

Artificial, does your occupation involve being a nurse?!? That was amazing.

[Gee]

Artificial, does your occupation involve being a nurse?!? That was amazing.

Are you serious?


It's really obvious he copy pasted that. I'm also really skeptical if you actually read that.

[fxckyouguys]

Last time I went in I had the start of a kidney infection (and a few others), and the bitch told me to tough it out.
So I just avoid the school nurse now.

[travis]

At my school there's 2 types of injuries...
minor burns, cuts, and scrapes...and no one complains, just deals with them...maybe some burn spray for numbing. Bandaids if you're a pussy.

And then there's the OMG MY FUCKING FINGER IS NO LONGER ATTACHED.
Then we go to the hospital.

[Derriere]

Last time I went in I had the start of a kidney infection (and a few others), and the bitch told me to tough it out.
So I just avoid the school nurse now.

ROFL. That bitch gets paid for doing nothing honestly I'd probably do the same shit
unless it was some sexy chick walking in through the door asking to be attended to, ayyy

[fxckyouguys]

ROFL. That bitch gets paid for doing nothing honestly I'd probably do the same shit
unless it was some sexy chick walking in through the door asking to be attended to, ayyy

ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT I AM NOT SEXY?

[dnnb]

During HS, the school's nurse was not there like 90% of the time

[Lucian]

I don't think most school nurses are capable of actually handling a medical situation.

[Whyumad]

Well.. They are good for looking, when you occasionally land with a young one no?
But yes they are rather ineffective, our school has these students who act as first aid

[PeonYourLawn]

Because of legal issues my school nurses couldn't give out medications to help either. If someone had a problem they basically just had them lay down with an ice pack on their head until their parents came to pick them up. But they did keep pads, tampons and band aids handy for emergencies.

this this this

hahaha they seem rather useless dont they. i'm sure anyone can administer an ice pack, and call the folks

[Andy]

The reason they have a school nurse is to administer basic first aid without needing to disrupt classes by getting the teacher to do it. Hence, they serve their purpose, and their role in schools and their pay packets are secure.

[Ziz]

Their role is more symbolic than practical, but it's better than nothing.
The teachers won't stop giving classes, so as Andy stated, they are helpful securing that the activities can keep going.

[Whyumad]

Wouldn't it be nice if it was just like at Hogwarts ya know?
Just wave a few wands and have basically a hospital with people who actually know what they are doing..
I think the school nurses in HS are for several schools so they aren't even there when they are needed!

Their role is more symbolic than practical, but it's better than nothing.
The teachers won't stop giving classes, so as Andy stated, they are helpful securing that the activities can keep going.

[Hurricane]

Because of legal issues my school nurses couldn't give out medications to help either. If someone had a problem they basically just had them lay down with an ice pack on their head until their parents came to pick them up. But they did keep pads, tampons and band aids handy for emergencies.

lol'd pretty hard at that

[yoongguk]

In High School our school nurse was beyond fucking stupid. She was constantly "on her lunch break". She must of had 15 lunch breaks a day T_T

The one time I needed to see the nurse was I had a killer tooth ache. I felt like I was going to pass out it was that painful. After waiting 30 minutes outside her office for her to finish her lunch I told her I needed a pain killer and she gave me a Strepsil. A fucking Strepsil...

[ilovepolkadots]

In High School our school nurse was beyond fucking stupid. She was constantly "on her lunch break". She must of had 15 lunch breaks a day T_T

The one time I needed to see the nurse was I had a killer tooth ache. I felt like I was going to pass out it was that painful. After waiting 30 minutes outside her office for her to finish her lunch I told her I needed a pain killer and she gave me a Strepsil. A fucking Strepsil...

this is where making friends is a much better solution

having a wide range of friends back in high school meant that vicodin and other fun prescription medications were readily available :3

[yoongguk]

this is where making friends is a much better solution

having a wide range of friends back in high school meant that vicodin and other fun prescription medications were readily available :3

If only I was popular back then...

[iargue]

If only I was popular back then...

Being popular sucks.

People always want to do shit, and expect shit from you. Sooooo lame.

And not to mention all of the drama.

[yoongguk]

Being popular sucks.

People always want to do shit, and expect shit from you. Sooooo lame.

And not to mention all of the drama.

At least I would of got a painkiller when I needed one.

Doing shit, and not meeting expectations is most likely why I never had anymore than 5 or 6 friends in high school.