Nurses:
- Provide medical health care as needed
- Manage chronic conditions
- Track communicable diseases
- Promote healthy behaviors
- Connect children with insurance and health care providers
- Handle emergency situations
- Handle life-threatening allergy and asthma events
- Respond to students physical and emotional concerns
- Connect students with substance-abuse treatment
- Screen for conditions that impair learning, such as poor vision or hearing
- Connect students with mental, behavioral, and reproductive health services
- Educate children about healthy lifestyles
- Ensure immunization compliance
- Develop health plans for students with disabilities
- Prepare for school wide and community emergencies
- Administer medication and provide first aid
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