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Public Health- The School NurseThe major role of a school nurse - correct answer ✔Facilitate normal
development
Promote student health & safety
Provide quality care for potential and actual health problems
Provide case management services
Collaborate with others to enhance student and family
Education for All Handicapped Children Act - correct answer ✔PL 94-142
passed in 1975. SHNs provide more complex care for conditions such as
Seizures, Asthma, CF
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - correct answer ✔Enacted in 1990
that is intended to make American society more accessible to people with
disabilities.
Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) - correct
answer ✔Passed in 1969, requires that children & adolescents < 21 yrs of
age have access to periodic screenings
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - correct answer ✔Enacted
in 1990 & reauthorized in 1997 designed to protect the rights of students with
disabilities by ensuring that everyone receives a free appropriate public
education & early intervention, regardless of ability.
strives to grant equal access to students with disabilities & to provide
additional special education services and procedural safeguards.
Mainstreaming: integrating children with serious illnesses or handicapping
conditions in regular school settings and classrooms whenever possible.
, Primary Prevention Strategies for school populations - correct answer
✔Promoting health: Health education in the school setting provides a
foundation for health behaviors in adulthood
• Provide anticipatory guidelines for growth and development & support
parents in effective parenting, promoting
• nutrition at home and in schools, dental health, physical activity, & positive
social skills
Preventing Illness & Injury: Prevent mortality, prevent communicable
diseases (raising the rate of complete up to date immunization records at
school), eliminate hazards, prevent pregnancy, sports injuries, chronic
conditions, injuries, bullying, violence, suicide
Secondary Prevention Strategies for school populations - correct answer
✔Resolving existing health problems
Screen for health problems, referral, counseling, & treatment for minor or
chronic conditions.
Development of Individualized Health Plans (IHPs), Policies for self-admin
medication. (after knowing dx)
Tertiary Prevention Strategies for school populations - correct answer
✔(Restoring Health & Managing Long Term Conditions)
Assist with rehabilitation, prevent consequences, and promote adjustment to
chronic illness/disability,
Promote recovery after a disaster, sustaining SBHCs
What is the Coordinated School Health Program - correct answer ✔An
integrated set of planned, sequential, school-affiliated strategies, activities,
and services deigned to promote the optimal physical, emotional, social, &
educational development of students
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