Development of a school nurse education model.
One reason that school nursing education programs vary from one geographic region to another is the difference in requirements for nurse certification by the different state boards of education. This has led to fragmentation and conflicting beliefs between the education and nursing communities about what should be included in a core curriculum. Changing family structure and health care needs of children today demand a more specific health focus in the education of school nurses. A recently-developed curriculum used the basic nursing core of a baccalaureate nursing program to identify the outcomes of school nurse education as specified by the professional bodies of the ANA and the NASN. The model incorporates only education course work that does not duplicate that in the BSN program.
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D002568:Certification; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D016730:Program Development; D012573:School Nursing / Q000193:education*