Introduction
The profession of a school nurse is vital to the proper functioning of an educational establishment. The nurses need to provide adequate healthcare for students, and in the case of problems with nurses’ work or perception, a child’s well-being could be in danger. In order to provide such care, the nurses use clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). In order to improve these guidelines, a Model for Developing Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for School Nursing (School Nursing CPG Model) was created (Shannon, & Maughan, 2020). The use of this Model will allow to find and fill gaps in nursing practice in schools.
The Health Assessment
The health assessment was performed in one of the Chicago schools, and School Nursing CPG Model was used for its purposes. The theory behind this Model provides specific conditions for adequate CGPs and how to establish them. It adheres to eight standards for developing CPGs, which have great emphasis on transparency, outside perspective, and being up-to-date (Shannon, & Maughan, 2020). In order to identify issues with the school’s nursing guidelines, the requirements stated in the Model were reviewed and compared. The health issue discovered was the lack of recommendations and strategies connected to evidence-based practice that were updated within the last five years. The plan to address this problem inheres to finding contemporary sources and updating the nursing practice guidelines accordingly.
Conclusion
In conclusion, school nursing is an integral part of an education facility’s performance and students’ well-being. In order to support and maintain children’s health, nurses need to adhere to adequate guidelines, which need to be transparent, reviewed, and up-to-date. As a result of the assessment, it was established that certain nursing guidelines lacked evidence-based recommendations and strategies that were published after 2018.
Reference
Shannon, R. A., & Maughan, E. D. (2020). A model for developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for school nursing. The Journal of School Nursing: The Official Publication of the National Association of School Nurses, 36(6), 415–422.