Healthy People 2020 Research Paper
One of the topics and objectives of healthy People 2020 is Diabetes: D-5 Improve glycemic control among persons with diabetes. School nurses play a huge role helping teenage students to control their blood sugar on a daily basis. The nurse monitors if students have appropriate supplies, checks if students withdraw the right amount of insulin. If the nurse notices that student’s blood sugar is constantly high for a period of time, he/she reaches student’s HCP and clarifies if there is a need to change patient’s sliding scale. Another topics and objectives of Healthy People 2020 is Vision: V-2 Reduce blindness and visual impairment in children and adolescents aged 17 years and under. LHS nurses provide ones a year a vision screening as a secondary
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heath prevention. Parent may be too busy and overlook their children’s vision complications. On other hand, in rare occasions school kids share with their parents about vision deterioration. In addition, public schools support Healthy People 2020’s objective IID-1 Reduce, eliminate, or maintain elimination of cases of vaccine-preventable diseases by auditing in the beginning of each school year if every student meet immunization requirements.
Next objective is Injury and Violence Prevention: IVP-33 Reduce physical assaults. If the LHS nurse witnesses any type of body injury caused by physical assault, he/she reports it to the school social worker. The social worker proceeds further on a problem.
Last but not least, the objective Respiratory disease: RD-5.1 Reduce the proportion of children aged 5 to 17 years with asthma who miss school days. As a tertiary prevention, LHS nurses help students with asthma management. Students receive treatment with nebulizer or inhaler at the school clinic according to the individualized daily asthma/allergy management plan.
One of the LHS nurse’s role is educator.
She educates not only school children on healthy diet habits, hand hygiene, or disease management, but also school staff as well. The nurse was educating one of the school teacher on hypertension sign symptoms and necessity taking medication on regular basis to maintain stable blood pressure levels. In addition, the school nurse provides CPR training for school teachers.
Also, the school nurse advocate for students. If the nurse suspects that any of students being neglected or abused, she reports it to the school social worker. For instance, tween sisters came with the complain of stomachache. During the conversation, the nurse found out that their stepmother does not allow them to eat and sometimes sisters can be without food for days. The nurse immediately reported this issue to the social worker.
The school nurse as a health promoter. Despite improvements to the National School Lunch Program, many school students do not eat school lunch. The school nurse helps children make smart choices in the school cafeteria. Many students skip breakfast, which has negative impact on students’ school performance. The school nurse always tries to convince teenagers to eat breakfast every time they come with the
stomachache.
heath prevention. Parent may be too busy and overlook their children’s vision complications. On other hand, in rare occasions school kids share with their parents about vision deterioration. In addition, public schools support Healthy People 2020’s objective IID-1 Reduce, eliminate, or maintain elimination of cases of vaccine-preventable diseases by auditing in the beginning of each school year if every student meet immunization requirements.
Next objective is Injury and Violence Prevention: IVP-33 Reduce physical assaults. If the LHS nurse witnesses any type of body injury caused by physical assault, he/she reports it to the school social worker. The social worker proceeds further on a problem.
Last but not least, the objective Respiratory disease: RD-5.1 Reduce the proportion of children aged 5 to 17 years with asthma who miss school days. As a tertiary prevention, LHS nurses help students with asthma management. Students receive treatment with nebulizer or inhaler at the school clinic according to the individualized daily asthma/allergy management plan.
One of the LHS nurse’s role is educator.
She educates not only school children on healthy diet habits, hand hygiene, or disease management, but also school staff as well. The nurse was educating one of the school teacher on hypertension sign symptoms and necessity taking medication on regular basis to maintain stable blood pressure levels. In addition, the school nurse provides CPR training for school teachers.
Also, the school nurse advocate for students. If the nurse suspects that any of students being neglected or abused, she reports it to the school social worker. For instance, tween sisters came with the complain of stomachache. During the conversation, the nurse found out that their stepmother does not allow them to eat and sometimes sisters can be without food for days. The nurse immediately reported this issue to the social worker.
The school nurse as a health promoter. Despite improvements to the National School Lunch Program, many school students do not eat school lunch. The school nurse helps children make smart choices in the school cafeteria. Many students skip breakfast, which has negative impact on students’ school performance. The school nurse always tries to convince teenagers to eat breakfast every time they come with the
stomachache.