Question

what legal challenges could impact a school nurse's ability to care for children?

Answer 1

Ans) School nursing responsibilities include making sure that children get the health care they need, including emergency care in the school; keeping track of the state-required vaccinations that children have received; carrying out the required screening of the children based on state law; and ensuring that children with health problems are able to learn in the classroom. The nurse cannot convince children to accept other children as peers, although certainly efforts should be made. HIPAA would not allow individual examples of health problems to be shared, other than providing group statistics.

- Because the law focuses exclusively on academic progress to determine the funding that schools receive, it encourages schools and districts to funnel resources in ways that limit support for necessary but indirect influences on academic outcomes. This has resulted in diminished support for health services, which are shown to improve learning readiness, promote student retention rates, and improve academic performance.