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HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

You can:
• Download the entire toolkit.
(Note: you will lose the electronic interface with elements that have “clickable” links.)
• Browse the Table of Contents and go directly to ideas that interest you.
• Go to our Quick Start Fact Sheet pages. If you need further resources or help, please
see the individual “Ideas for Implementation” under the appropriate key principle.

This toolkit is designed to help you plan your project and enlist stakeholders who can help
you. You can start anytime during your school year, however, many of the projects work
best when you plan for activities to begin in September. This is especially true if you are
planning to use an idea for your Student Growth Objective (SGO) or annual professional
development plan. Do not feel that you need to accomplish all the goals or objectives.
Instead, choose which may work best for you and then build upon your idea to do more in
the following year.

This document is intended to be used by individual school nurses, their school nurse
supervisors, school administrators, and other community partners interested in promoting
competency, quality and safe care, evidence-based research and/or projects, and
professionalism in school nursing practice.

The ideas represented in this document promote a safe and healthy school community
through professional development, collaborative planning, community initiatives, policy
advocacy, connecting ideas and resources, and research initiatives. The ideas focus on
activities that are grounded in evidence-based standards of practice, are relevant, and
support the role of the school nurse in the 21st century. Use these ideas to start dialogues,
engage partners, and perhaps as the springboard for your own initiatives.

It is divided into four sections: care coordination, leadership, quality improvement,
community/public health, surrounded by the fifth principle standards of practice. Each
key principle has a “How does this impact Standards of Practice” section to demonstrate
the link to the standards of practice as the surrounding foundation of the framework. The
standards of practice principle are intended to act as the foundation for the other four
key principles. Each of the four key principles has two sample project ideas to serve as
an example for developing a project initiative. In addition, each key principle has a quick
start fact that provides ideas, goals, action steps, resources, measure outcomes and social
media.

The last section of the document includes resources and sources for partners, funding, and
sample templates to guide your project.

Definitions
Definitions of the framework principles and components were taken from the original
articles that developed the Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice™ (NASN,
2016a; Maughan, Duff, et al., 2016). Where applicable the original source is cited.

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