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Student-centered care also includes providing the
individual education and support that students/
EDUCATION families need to be decision makers in their own care,
including health promotion and disease prevention
behaviors.

Interdisciplinary teams. Interdisciplinary teams rely
on the overlapping knowledge, skills, and abilities of

INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS each professional team member. The student health
outcomes are enhanced with interdisciplinary teams,
as compared with the individual efforts of the team
members (ANA & NASN, 2017).

School nurse counseling involves educating and
assisting students with health needs, self-care, and
coping. Counseling often has an individual student
MOTIVATIONAL focus, although it can be done with groups as well
INTERVIEWING/ (Minnesota Department of Health, 2001). Motivational
interviewing is a specific, well-researched form of
COUNSELING counseling that empowers the students to identify

their concerns and solutions, as opposed to the nurse
providing solutions (Bonde, Bentsen, & Hindhede,
2014).

The school nurses’ coordination of care may include
the delegation of nursing tasks. Nursing delegation is
a process used by the nurse to lead another person
to perform nursing tasks (ANA & National Council
of State Boards of Nursing, 2006). In the school
setting, nursing delegation requires the registered
NURSING DELEGATION professional school nurse to assign a specific nursing
task—in a specific situation for an individual student—
to unlicensed assistive personnel, while providing
ongoing supervision and evaluation of the unlicensed
assistive personnel and the student’s health outcomes
(Bobo, 2014). Delegation is further defined and
regulated by state nurse practice acts and state laws.

School nurses develop health care plans, including the
Individualized Health Care Plan (IHP) and Emergency
Care Plan, and contribute to the development of
student educational plans (e.g., 504 Plan, Individualized
Education Program). Student-centered health
STUDENT CARE PLANS documents are developed by the school nurse, based
on his or her assessment and healthcare provider
orders, and they follow the nursing process to address
concerns and established goals and the interventions
to address those goals (National Association of School
Nurses, 2015)

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