title: The "3 Ds" of school nursing: diversity, determinants, and disparities.
abstract: In August 2012, the Health Resources and Services Administration's Division of Nursing hosted a 2-day conference to discuss the three Ds: workforce diversity, social determinants, and health disparities that nurses face every day. In particular they wanted to begin a discussion on how nursing, which is still afield of little diversity, must address the needs of a nation that is quite diverse. The framework of the discussion focused around the need to address health in its complexity of the social determinants and health disparities that exist. The purpose of this article is to personalize these concepts to school nurses.
authors.affiliation: National Association of School Nurses, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Erin D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Maughan
authors.forename: Beth M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Barrows
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D006293:Health Promotion; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty; D012573:School Nursing; D012931:Social Environment; D014481:United States