Restructuring the role of school nurse in health promotion

For more than two decades an enduring relationship between years of formal schooling and improved health status has been emerging as noteworthy. School nurses are currently in place to focus more attention on refining how this relationship can be maximized in clinical practice. A brief review of the theoretical framework, modeling and role-modeling, is presented, including application to a case study depicting how the school nurse used theory-driven nursing process for health promotion.