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Makayla Boyd; Heide R. Cygan; Booker Marshall; Derrick Little; Mallory Bejster – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
School nurses are uniquely positioned to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning/queer (LGBTQ) students. One approach is involvement in Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs). GSAs have been found to improve outcomes for LGBTQ students. The purposes of this quality improvement project were to build infrastructure for GSAs by…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Social Support Groups, LGBTQ People, Program Development
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Hatmaker, Grace – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now categorizes skin cancer as epidemic. Nearly 90% of these deadly cancers start from sun exposure during the childhood years. This makes sun exposure in school-age children a serious public health risk, also one that school nurses can address. Solar radiation is now classified as a "known…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Prevention, School Nurses, Public Health
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Hulton, Linda J. – Journal of School Nursing, 2007
Teenage pregnancy and the subsequent social morbidities associated with unintended pregnancies are complex issues facing school nurses in their daily work. In contemporary practice, school nurses are being held to higher standards of accountability and being asked to demonstrate the effective outcomes of their interventions. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Models, Prevention, School Nurses