School Nurse
Family Health Care Associates
Paris, kentucky
Family Health Care Associates (FHCA) follows the Kentucky Higher Education standards of expectation for school nurses. Below you will find a general outline of what is expected. In addition to these guidelines, you will find the required duties of a school nurse per FHCA standards.
School Nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaption, self-management services, and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaption, self management, self-advocacy, and learning. (National Association of School Nurses, 1999)
The National Association of School Nurses has...