School Nurses Can Reduce Firearm Injuries and Deaths.

The increasing incidents of school shootings in recent years have resulted in America's students, teachers, and staff feeling vulnerable. The most effective approach to creating safe and supportive school environments requires a comprehensive, coordinated effort including school-wide, district-wide, and community-wide strategies. School nurses, healthcare partners embedded in school communities, can guide these efforts. This article reviews data on school located gun violence through a public health lens, as well as outlines a framework for levels of prevention, including downstream, midstream, and upstream strategies. Finally, the article includes evidence-based examples, models, and tools for each level of prevention.

Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Emergency Responders.

ABSTRACT: School nurses from the Klein Independent School District in Harris County, Texas, have educated students, some as young as kindergarteners, on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to recognize and use automatic external defibrillators and provide basic first aid. Through a collaboration with community partners and CPR-certified high school students, these school nurses are empowering the next generation with lifesaving skills.

U.S. School Nursing Job Analysis.

The complexity and demands of the school nurse role have changed greatly over time. Our aims included determining tasks and knowledge relevant to modern school nursing in the United States, identifying continuing education needs of school nurses, and describing anticipated changes to the professional role. A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional web-based survey of 750 school nurses was performed. The study team evaluated calculations of mean importance and frequency for school nursing task and knowledge statements. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze open-ended responses. School nurses rated most tasks and knowledge as relevant to practice, underscoring the great depth and breadth of education and training school nurses need to meet the demands of students today. The results of this secondary analysis may be leveraged to accurately describe the school nurse role, advocate for nursing services, and support school nurses as they strive to better the health of school communities.

Advocating for Students and School Nursing: NASN Contributions to the Future of Nursing 2020-2030.

The Future of Nursing (FON) 2020-2030 will be an important roadmap for advancing the profession of nursing. The final FON document is meant to address nursing as a whole-not specific specialties-as well as address changes needed in the entire healthcare system that would facilitate patient safety and care. To ensure inclusion of the needs of school-age children and nurses employed outside the traditional hospital setting in the proceedings, the NASN offered comments at the first public meeting of the Committee on the Future of Nursing in March 2019 (Figure 1) and followed the other town hall meetings carefully. NASN submitted the following observations and suggestions in the form of a memo to the FON 2020-2030 Committee for consideration in the final report.

Data Sharing: Partnering With Others to Advance Student Health.

This interview provides a practical example of how a school district appropriately shares data with outside partners. It is a practical example of how to apply the principles found in the article on data sharing, which is part of the "data and school nursing" articles series being published in NASN School Nurse during the 2018-2019 school year.

Power of the Past, Celebrate the Present, Force of the Future, Part 3: Interview With NASN Leaders.

For Part 3 of the NASN School Nurse series exploring NASN's past, present, and future, Lindsey Minchella interviews NASN President, Nina Fekaris and President-elect, Laurie Combe to discuss their school nursing perspective and philosophies. These three school nursing leaders discuss what is responsible for their long tenure as school nurses, changes witnessed in student health over the years, how NASN makes a difference for students and school nurses, the future of school nursing, and the power of NASN members' voices to improve student health and academic outcomes.

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child-Calling School Nurses to Action.

The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model released in 2015 as a collaboration between associations focuses renewed attention on the importance of improved physical, emotional, and social health to student learning. The model replaces and expands upon the Coordinated School Health Model that has been widely implemented in schools since the late 1980s. NASN celebrates this new model and calls school nurses to action in advocating for the implementation of this model in their communities. This article not only introduces this new model to school nurses but shares examples of school nurse advocacy initiatives.