Health Services Program

School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students. To that end, School nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development; promote health and safety; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy and learning.

• Illness assessment and care
• Injury prevention, triage and treatment
• Medication administration and monitoring
• Health counseling and health promotion
• Communicable disease prevention and control
• Health Screenings:
  • Hearing and Vision
  • Postural
  • Height, weight 
  • SBIRT screening
• Environmental health and safety
• Communication between/among students, parents, the school community health care providers.
• Selected health services are also provided for school faculty and staff