Legal Issues in School Nursing Practice

Cromwell G.E. , The Nurse in the School Health Program (W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, Pa.) (1963) at 3.

Wold S. , School Nursing: A Framework for Practice (C.V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, Mo.) (1981) at 6.

McKaig C. , Implementation of the School Nurse Practitioner Role: Barriers and Facilitators, Journal of School Health 54(1): 21–23 (January 1984), citing Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Special Report, School Health Services (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.) (1979).

Frels L. , National Survey of School Nurse Certification Re Visited, Journal of School Health 52(7): 446–47 (September 1982).

Gadow K.D. Kane K.M. , Administration of Medications by School Personnel, Journal of School Health 53(3): 178, 179 (March 1983).

Courtnage L. , The Use of Prescribed Medication in the Schools: A Status Report on the Stale Policies and Guidelines, Journal of School Health 52(9): 543–48 (November 1982).

See Committee on School Health, Medical Emergencies and Administration of Medication in School, Pediatrics 61(1): 115–16 (January 1978).

See Ross J.C. Foreman C.M. , An Analysis of Policies Regulating Medication in Ohio Public Schools, Journal of School Health 53(10): 589–93 (December 1983).

Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. §10-212a (West Supp. 1984).

Gadow Kane , supra note 5, at 181.

See, e.g., Fiesta J. , The Law & Liability: A Guide for Nurses (John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y.) (1983).

Karzon D.T. , A National Compensation Program for Vaccine-Related Injuries, New England Journal of Medicine 310(20): 1320–22 (May 17, 1984).

Problems associated with injuries resulting from vaccines have begun to receive national attention. See S. 2117, 98th Cong., 1st Sess. (1983) (an act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for compensation of those who have sustained vaccine-related injuries).

Gadow Kane , supra note 5, at 178.

Kinne M. , Accidents, Journal of School Health 52(9):564–65 (November 1982).

288 P.2d 581 (Cal. 1955).

Id. at 587.

Carey R.J. Shute R.E. , Sports Trauma Management and the High School Nurse, Journal of School Health 52(3): 156–58 (March 1982).

Id. at 157.

See generally Annas G.J. Glantz L.H. Katz B.F. , The Rights of Doctors, Nurses, and Allied Health Professionals (Ballinger Books, Cambridge, Mass.) (1981) at 106, noting that “the thrust of the legislation is to protect persons offering assistance other than that which they have a legal duty to render.” See also Practices (Nursing '84 Books, Springhouse, Pa.) (1984) at 198–203 (summarizing in table form Good Samaritan laws by state and Canadian province).

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. §2305.231 (Page Supp. 1983); Mo. Ann. Stat. §537.037 (Vernon Supp. 1984).

See Practices, supra note 20, at app. H (listing child abuse statutes and to whom they apply). Failure to report abuse can subject one who is required to report it to civil and/or criminal penalties.

See generally Holder A.R. , Legal Issues in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y.) (1977).