• Covers all aspects of the delivery of healthcare services to school-age children, adolescents and staff.
• Illustrates the role of the school nurse as a vital link in the clinical management of child health care.
• Integrates components of the school health program throughout the text.
• Offers strategies for enhancing the school nurse's ability to take a leadership role in all school health programs.
• Provides information comprehensive enough to be applied in college health settings.
• Emphasizes clinical application of up-to-date, evidence-based pediatric, mental health and public health nursing as they relate to providing care in schools.
• Functions as an excellent resource for orientation to the role of the school nurse, and for one-day in-service or continuing education programs.