title: The school nurse practitioner: providing improved health care to children.
abstract: School nurse practitioners have the competence to participate in providing a broad range of direct primary health care and services to the school-age child. Greater utilization of these specially prepared and highly qualified nurse practitioners as providers of health care in the school is a practical and effective method of adding to the quality, availability, and continuity of health care for the school-age child.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012572:School Health Services; D014481:United States