Introducing nursery nurses to the school health team.
Introduction of skill mix in school nursing services has tended to lag behind health visiting and district nursing, where its implementation has met with very mixed responses. Elizabeth Lochhead describes a skill mix review in the East Dorset school nursing service which introduced nursery nurses to work alongside school nursing sisters in providing a health assessment and health promotion service to local schools.
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