Main description:

The American Nurses Association worked together with nurses from across the nursing profession to develop School Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 4th Edition. It is the definitive and up-to-date delineation of school nursing, articulating the competent level of nursing practice and professional performance of all registered school nurses, whatever their practice level or setting.

The publication's scope of practice addresses what is expected of all school nurses, specifying the who, what, where, when, why, and how of their practice. The detailed discussion of that scope of practice provides the context needed to understand and use the standards, presenting the underlying assumptions, characteristics, environments and settings, education and training requirements, key issues and trends, and ethical and conceptual bases of the specialty.