School Nurse Resources

MEDSCAPE Pediatrics/Neonatal Care Nursing Resource Center

Pediatric and neonatal nurses and nurse practitioners specialize in the care of infants and children of all ages and in all practice settings, including acute care settings such as hospitals and surgical centers, and in primary care settings such as pediatric offices or clinics, schools, colleges, and homes. Pediatric and neonatal nurses provide care to children who are acutely, chronically, or critically ill with the goal of improving children's health and providing support to both children and families

http://www.medscape.com/nurses

Currently the following school related full text articles for free:

Delegation in the School Setting: Is it a Safe Practice?

When it comes to delegation, school health nurses are faced with unique challenges in order to maintain patient safety.

OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, November 2010

Safety Standards and Socioeconomic Disparities in School Playground Injuries: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Do children of a lower socioeconomic status have a higher chance of being injured in a school playground? And, if so, why?

School Mental Health Project, UCLA

Center for Mental Health in Schools

UCLA School Mental Health Project

ENEWS is one of the many resources provided by the School Mental Health Project/Center for

Mental Health in Schools at UCLA. This electronic newsletter is sent to those concerned with

enhancing policies, programs, and practices related to addressing barriers to student learning and

to promoting mental health in schools.

September 2010 issue:

http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/ENEWS/sept10.pdf

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ENEWS, Electronic Networking

I like the book The Handbook of School Nursing. I also found a great free resource which was referred to me by "The Internet for School Nurses" website at http://www.ohsu.edu/library/ref/schoolnurse

That resource, which I'm really finding useful, is a free downloadable emergency manual for school nurses. It tells about all the most commonly encountered first aid situations, how to assess them, triage, and disposition. It's at: http://www.luhs.org/depts/emsc/schl_man.htm

Another book I find useful at times is: School Nursing: A Comprehensive Text, by Selekman. When you look up a condition there, it seems to be covered pretty comprehensively.