School's Nurse Role In Asthma

Growing up with asthma since a very young age, I cannot participate in sports and have to take asthma medications every day. I get used to ensure my inhalers are in my bag before going anywhere and seasonal allergies following up with runny nose or nasal congestion. However I still feel lucky because many people who have more severe asthma were struggling with their schooling. For me, as I grow older, I learn to manage my medical situation. I try my best to avoid dusty places, cigarette smokers, and car exhausts. Although I was not able to do sports in school, I manage to run every week with my sister to conquer asthma. I found that the more time that I spent to warm up before running, the better I can keep my asthma from acting up. Even though

R.J. is a 15-year-old boy with a history of asthma diagnosed at age 8. His asthma episodes are triggered by exposure to cats and various plant pollens. He has been using his albuterol inhaler 10 to 12 times per day over the last 3 days and is continuing to wheeze. He normally needs his inhaler only occasionally (2 or 3 times per week). He takes no other medications and has no other known medical conditions. Physical examination reveals moderate respiratory distress with a respiratory rate of 32, oximetry 90%, peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) 60% of predicted, and expiratory wheezing.

The changes to both student health needs and healthcare during the 21st century have an impact on school nursing practice today. It was because of these changes that the “National Association of School Nurses (NASN) developed the visual and conceptual Framework that explains the key principles of school nursing and provides structure and focus to current evidence-based school nursing practice” (NASN, 2016, p.45). The ultimate goal of the framework for the 21st century “is to provide a resource to guide school nurses in their practice” in order “to help students be healthy, safe, and ready to learn” (NASN, 2016, p.45). The framework for the 21st century school nursing practice consist of

Since the passing of the 2010, Health Care Legislation Laws, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, were instilled to increase the percentages of Americans having quality, affordable health care insurance coverage and making colleges more affordable and accessible to them. The Institute of Medicine developed a study to see how the nursing profession can be improved and to contribute to build a health care system that

Also, when an asthma attack is occurring an individual would need paramedics to be equip and be trained to know how to help the individual recover from their asthma because it is a serious situation, and the paramedic would give an individual supplemental oxygen and give the individual a breathing treatment with drugs that opens their airways and a paramedic would transfer the individual to hospital as soon as possible. But with diabetes, the paramedics do not need to be equip as much than they would for asthma because diabetes is a slow process and is able to treat the treatment in time without rushing or needing to panic and fix the problem straight away, also diabetes attack are less frequent then asthma attacks.

The nurse is also vital in communicating health matters between home and school as well as health care providers and school. Chikani and Plonski-Fuqua (2006) state that the most common medical conditions a nurse may encounter include asthma, diabetes, severe allergies, stoma tube care, NG tube care, behavioral health, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy. In order to provide appropriate care for the students the school nurse must have experience in an acute care setting, pediatric assessment, mental health experience and good knowledge of developmental stages of children. Most school nurses work individually so it is important that the nurse is capable of providing the right interventions and is able to recognize emergency situations.

In this section of the report the support available for Asthma and Influenza are discussed. There are many different people with different roles who provide support to patients who suffer from these diseases. Support is about providing the right care, treatments and assistance for those people who are experiencing your chosen diseases (classroom notes, 2015). Both individuals who were interviewed stated that they got some statutory support this was more the case in the individual with asthma, but the main support for both cases was informal support from their families (Detail of this interview is available in appendices).

Asthma – asthma is a very common condition in schools. The symptoms are wheezing and coughing. Most children will carry an inhaler with them and handle the condition well but when children have an asthmatic attack which is not helped by an inhaler medical help is sought out immediately.

The prevalence of asthma for Hispanic children living in urban areas is higher than the national average (Nepaul, Peng, Kloter, Hewes, & Boulay, 2012). Implementing a tailored asthma education program for Hispanics parents and children with asthma is considered to be the best intervention to reduce acute asthma exacerbations and return visits to the emergency department (ED) (Martin, Andrade, Villa, Acosta-Perez, & Canino, 2010). This outline will describe educational interventions for Hispanic children with asthma by identifying poorly controlled asthmatic children in the ED, provision of asthma education, and follow-up care.

In this assignment the scenario presented is of a mother bringing her daughter into the emergency room during an asthma attack. Though both of her parents work, they cannot afford medical insurance for themselves or her. They also earn too much money to qualify for state or federal aid. She is treated with medication for her asthma attack at the hospital and she and her mother leave. Two weeks later, they return to the hospital in a virtually identical scenario. I will be discussing whether I feel the girl received adequate care for her condition, should she be treated by a physician before her condition worsens, should everyone be entitled to a basic minimum of healthcare and is healthcare a right (AIU Online, 2013)?

Asthma is one of most common diseases in children and considered a burden of physical and emotional childhood. A figure indicates that the percentage of children with asthma in Australia is similar to in America (Aloola al et., 2014), moreover, the findings of Grover al et. (2013) indicate probably that asthma is a common and burden of developed countries, including Australia and America. This essay will evaluate these artefacts and journals that indicate accurately and precisely about psychosocial effects of living with asthma as regards less self- management, challenging in educational environment, including classmate attitude. These reasons are highly serious risk of psychiatric illness, so this essay will discuss about the role of nurse in management asthma and school health program.

With more children who have complex medical conditions, along with the increase in schools and students, it is becoming extremely difficult to meet the demands of the students. In the United States there is no government legislation that supports having school nurses. Some states do make stipulations on having school nurses according to the number of students in a school, which ends up not having access to a full-time nurse daily, and also having an extremely high student ratio (Nwabuzor, 2007).

This paper explores the various roles of the school nurse, including health promotion in the pediatric setting and maintaining patient safety as well as preventing infection. Health promotion not only has a positive impact on the students attending the school, but on the community as well. Health promotion can include health fairs, and various screening procedures performed by the school nurse. The school nurse is responsible for providing quality care to students, and members of staff. It also describes the observed patient care performed by the school nurse and the value of the learning experience. Developmental differences and how they affect patient care are also discussed. Every aspect of nursing care revolve around the developmental state of the patient. Nursing interventions differ depending on the age of the patient to provide adequate and quality care. The aspects this paper explores provides knowledge upon a different area of nursing and a different physical environment of nursing.

Often in the well-developed country of New Zealand, citizens face difficult decisions regarding their health care choices. Rosie, is one such citizen, who’s moderate symptoms of asthma have led to a dilemma. Rosie knows that she requires treatment however, is uncertain of whether she should visit a local general practitioner, or an emergency department. This quandary has occurred due to the fact that she is a student and is financially unstable, having only $150 a week after paying her accommodation. Whereas the GP will cost her a total of $33, the emergency department will have no co-payment for its service. The essay will examine the various advantages and disadvantages of each option, and will then go on to analyse the implications on the

Twenty-five pediatric nurses in acute care from two regional hospitals in North Carolina participated in the study. (Stanley, Pollard, 2013) Participants’ age ranged from 22 to 58 years. (Stanley, Pollard, 2013) Nurses who participated had 1 to 30 years of nursing experience with pediatrics. (Stanley, Pollard, 2013) Most of the participants were females and worked full time. (Stanley, Pollard, 2013) There was an equal amount of participants with an