title: Introducing nursery nurses to the school health team.
abstract: 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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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lochhead
mesh_terms: D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012573:School Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000078329:Workforce