内容简介：
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. Key Features: covers all aspects of the delivery of healthcare services to school-age children, adolescents and staff; illustrates the role of the school nurse as a vital link in the clinical management of child health care; integrates components of the school health program throughout the text; offers strategies for enhancing the school nurse's ability to take a leadership role in all school health programs; provides information comprehensive enough to be applied in college health settings; emphasizes clinical application of up-to-date, evidence-based pediatric, mental health and public health nursing as they relate to providing care in schools; and, functions as an excellent resource for orientation to the role of the school nurse, and for one-day in-service or continuing education programs.