What does a school nurse do?
School nurses are involved in a wide range of services. For instance, they provide health and sex education within schools, carry out developmental screening, and administer immunisation programmes. A school nurse works in partnership with a school to create an environment that promotes healthy living, as well as responding to the needs of individual children. They also have a public health role, addressing the needs of the local school-age population as a whole, in a range of community settings including children at home. School nurses can be employed either by the local health authority, primary care trust, community trust or sometimes by the school directly.
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