School nursing [electronic resource] : a comprehensive text / Janice Selekman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

School nursing : a comprehensive text -- Preface -- NASN Advisory Committee -- Contributors -- Reviewers -- Contents -- Part I: The Profession of School Nursing -- Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives of School Nursing -- Chapter 2: The Profession of School Nursing -- Chapter 3: Standards of Practice -- Chapter 4: Frameworks and Models for School Nursing Practice -- Chapter 5: The School Nurse's Role as a Health Educator -- Chapter 6: The School Nurse's Role in Research and the Development of Evidence-Based Practice -- Chapter 7: Collaboration with the Community -- Part II: Legal Foundations for School Nursing -- Chapter 8: Legal Issues Related to School Nursing Practice: The Foundation -- Chapter 9: Legislation Affecting School Nurses -- Chapter 10: Federal Laws Protecting Children and Youth with Disabilities in the Schools -- Chapter 11: Student Health and Education Plans -- Part III: Understanding Children and Families -- Chapter 12: Demographics of Children and Adolescents -- Chapter 13: Growth and Development: Preschool Through Adolescence -- Chapter 14: The Student's Family -- Chapter 15: Cultural Competence in Professional School Nursing Practice -- Part IV: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention/Acute Care -- Chapter 16: Promoting Health at School -- Chapter 17: Disease Prevention -- Chapter 18: Acute Measures for Emergent Problems -- Chapter 19: Common Complaints -- Chapter 20: Athlete Health Promotion -- Chapter 21: Skin Disorders -- Part V: Children with Chronic Conditions -- Chapter 22: Children with Chronic Conditions -- Chapter 23: Allergy -- Chapter 24: Asthma -- Chapter 25: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities -- Chapter 26: Diabetes Management in the School Setting -- Chapter 27: Intellectual Disabilities -- Chapter 28: Mental Health Concerns -- Chapter 29: Overweight Children: Making a Difference -- Chapter 30: Seizures and Epilepsy -- Chapter 31: Skills Needed by Children Who Are Technology Dependent -- Part VI: The Behavior of Children and Adolescents -- Chapter 32: Behavior Assessment and Management in School -- Chapter 33: Youth Violence -- Chapter 34: High-Risk Behaviors -- Chapter 35: Pregnant and Parenting Teens -- Part VII: School Health Management -- Chapter 36: Health Services Management -- Chapter 37: Emergency Management, Crisis Response, and the School Nurse's Role -- Chapter 38: Budgeting and Accessing Funding -- Chapter 39: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for School Personnel -- Chapter 40: Staff Management -- Index.

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The only text endorsed by the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) and winner of an AJN Book-of-the-Year Award is now in its 2nd Edition! Inside, you'll find comprehensive coverage of the multiple facets of school nursing-from the foundations of practice and the roles and functions of a school nurse through episodic and chronic illness and behavioral issues, to legal issues and leading and managing within school settings. Written and edited by school nurses and pediatric experts, it features real-world-tested, best practices based on evidence and experience. There's content here that you won't find in other books, such as health assessments, individualized health plan development, mental health conditions including adolescent depression, contemporary legal issues, and current policy statements essential to school nursing.

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