Assignment 2
REASEARCH ESSAY

BY JADE DUNGATE

My essay is going to be based on nursing within schools. I'm going to discuss the financial and nursing funds and cuts and proposed changes and argue as to whether these factors will affect the nurses ability to provide a proper service to schools and pupils.

Firstly I am going to discuss the background history of school nursing. In the begining school nurses where employed to check hygiene and general cleanliness of the pupils i.e headlice and skin infections. This was because alot of children came from poor struggling working class families. In the 1890's they would do treatment for minor injuries and eye infections. In 1907 they progressed to medical inspections and measures to prevent the spread of disease and sanctioned conditions, this led to nurses being able to provide more treatment to the children. there were two main reasons for this. The first being to provide knowledge to the children parents and teachers, the second to see if children were fit and healthy to take part in chool class and activities. Also to prevent the spread of disease.

So, who is a school nurse? what role do they play in a school environment? a school nurse is someone who would normally be in charge of approximately 7 schools at the most, with approximately 2,500 pupils in total,making their job very hard and challenging due to the amount of work and responsibility, also lack of resources to do the job as well as they should compared to independant schools wo have larger budgets and capital to invest in resources.

All nurses have to be CRB checked. Their role is to make sure the children in school health need are met and that they are Fairley healthy in themselves. A nurse will check children's hearing to see if there are problems, referring them to a doctor if is needed, checking their height and also checking…...