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IDEAS: How can I use this principle in my practice?

• Case management: Integrates care coordination in acute and chronic case management.
Improving collaborative communication with parents, teachers, physicians and school
trainer to incorporate case management of student injuries that are school sports-related.
Recognizes need to coordinate care and communication that are specific to the student
and goal-oriented. Recognizes that case management is not just for chronic illness.
Management of acute injury and acute disease management is also needed.
• Chronic disease management: The student will have an attendance rate of X% or better
(as determined by school nurse/district/absenteeism team/state standards) related to the
chronic disease. Enhances understanding of complexity of attendance when associated
with a chronic disease. Contributes to awareness of relationship between school attendance
and student health and learning outcomes.

• Collaborative communication: Improving collaborative communication with healthcare
providers through access to real time electronic healthcare records. Supports integration
between acute care and school care delivery of health needs.
• Direct care: Provide optimum level of care. Achieves highest level of evidence-based and
best practices professional care delivery by school nurses as directed by school nursing
scope and standards of practice.
• Education: Educate new staff on how to collaborate with the school nurse; and educate
administrators on nursing scope of practice/license. Furthers collaboration and team
efforts that support student outcomes.
• Education: Incorporate individual student motivational interviewing/trauma informed
counseling. Furthers student self-empowerment that promotes student self-care. Enhances
well-being of student through understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects
of all types of trauma.
• Interdisciplinary teams: Implement dedicated Department of Education or Department
of Health state school nurse consultant. Advances interdisciplinary knowledge and cross-
pollination of education and health in schools to support student outcomes – being healthy
and ready to learn.
• Nursing Delegation: Epinephrine autoinjector and glucagon delegation recruitment and
training. Follows state statutes and mandates to recruit and train non-nursing school staff
in emergency medication delivery.
• Student care plans: Create a care plan for every student with a medical condition that
warrants/requires it. Standardized plans demonstrate role of school nurse as medial expert,
enhances education and information to those who need the information, individualizes
care delivery.
• Student Self-empowerment: Education and learning activities to guide and promote
student self-care related to health and safety. Collaborative effort to improve student
knowledge and behaviors that encourage a culture of health.
• Student Self-empowerment: Student will be an active participant in management of
his/her care. Promotes psychosocial development of the student as guided by tenets of
Banduras\ self-efficacy model.

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