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DoDEA School Health Services Manual 2942.0 Volume 1 Revised: 2016 DRAFT
School nurses may also assemble and distribute to all staff members a school
health services/teacher handbook of health/school-related topics. See Section I: ,
, and for information to include.
D-8-17 School Nursing Resources
See for for Professional Library Resources
DoDEA Web-based Course Management Software
DoDEA maintains a Web-based course management software (CMS) program
that can be used to create an online learning environment for distance learning, hybrid
and Web-enhanced courses. The DoDEA CMS at the publication of this Manual is the
Schoology Learning Management System. Schoology can also serve as a portal for
institutions and their online learning communities, using collaborative tools, content
development and assessment utilities. School and district ETs can provide passwords
as well as information on how to access the DoDEA CMS and its many communities.
DoDEA recognizes the American Nursing Association, the American Academy of
Pediatrics, the American School Health Association, the National Association of School
Nurses, and NBCSN as private non-governmental organizations that prescribe
professional functions and standards of performance for their respective professional
groups. These organizations are unique in that their guidance is employed by states in
establishing professional licensure standards for their respective professional groups;
therefore, they prescribe the standards of professionalism expected of all school nurses.
Brief information of each organization is provided below. Information for the
respective groups was obtained from their website.
National Association of School Nurses
The National Education Association (NEA) established a Department of School
Nurses (DSN) on July 4, 1968. The ultimate purpose of this organization is to improve
the quality of school nursing, upgrade the skills of school nurses and to further the
abilities of all students to succeed in the classroom. Throughout the 1970s, each state
established school nursing credentialing standards as well as their own school nurses
association under the DSN. In 1979, the DSN became an entity separate from the NEA.
That same year, NASN was incorporated, and it remains the largest association of
school nurses.
NASN’s Web site contains NASN position statements, issue briefs and other
publications that help clarify and define the role of nurses in the school setting. Many
of the reference materials listed in re NASN materials. School nurses may