Public Health Intervention
Wheel-School Nurse Applications
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Individual, School¾Community, and
System Interventions
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Disease and Health
Event Investigation
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Student assessments
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Disease surveillance
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Foodborne illness and environmental investigations
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Outreach
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Parent-teacher conference
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Options for reproductive care
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NASN eyeglass program
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Dental¾Give a Kid a Smile
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Newsletters
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Community primary and specialty care providers
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Community service organizations
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Screening
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Screening programs for students: hearing, vision, blood pressure,
scoliosis, dental, and growth
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Screening program for staff: blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar
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Referral and
Follow-Up
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Medical
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Mental health
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Dental
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Child protection services
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Case Management
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Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
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Section 504 evaluations
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Individual and emergency action plans
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Chronic disease management
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Liaison between the school, parent, medical, and community health
organizations
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Delegated Function
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Nursing tasks
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Procedures
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Medication administration
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Health Teaching
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Classroom presentations
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Small groups (i.e. asthma, hygiene, and high risk groups)
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1:1 nurse/student teaching
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Presentation to parent teacher organizations
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Newsletters, student newspapers, announcements, parent notifications
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Counseling
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1:1 nurse/student counseling
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Small group
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Parent-child counseling
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Consultation
Consultation (continued)
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Teacher referrals
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Pupil Services staff
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Student service teams
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School’s medical advisor
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Community medical providers and agencies
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School nurse colleagues
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School legal services
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Collaboration
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Pupil Services personnel
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Local health departments
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Student¾nurse preceptors
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Nurse-to-new school nurse mentorship
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Local Medicaid enrollment
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Coalition Building
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School personnel
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Local health department
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Wisconsin and National Association of School Nurses
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Community agencies
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First responders
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Community Organizing
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Local chronic disease chapters of the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition,
Immunization Practices, Wisconsin Diabetes Association, Epilepsy Foundation
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Service organization¾Lion’s Club, Optimist Club,
Jaycees, etc.
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Faith-based groups
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Advocacy
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School Nursing and Health Service Report to the school board
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Accommodation for student with special health care needs
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Wisconsin and National School Nurse legislative committees
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Department of Health Services’ Health Service Report
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Social Marketing
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Email blast to students, staff, and parents
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Facebook®, Twitter®, and You Tube®
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Local Nursing and Health Service website design
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Letters to the local newspapers
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School district newsletter
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Policy Development and Enforcement
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Accidental injury and illness
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Medication administration¾ records keeping, forms, and storage
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Nursing procedures
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Surveillance
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Population assessment
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Local disease prevalence
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Chronic disease awareness
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Local and statewide Youth Risk Behavior Survey data
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Public Health Nursing Section: Public Health Interventions–Applications for Public
Health Nursing Practice. St. Paul: Minnesota, Department of Health, 2001. Adapted by the
Holmen School District School Nurses and Department of Public Instruction,
2010.
School nurses
can identify the individual, community, and systems level interventions for
each of these categories of public health intervention.