Strengthening School Nursing Through State-Level Infrastructure Supports

Abstract

State-level school nursing infrastructure supports are essential for building equitable, evidence-based, quality school nursing services. Two recently published instruments, the State School Health Infrastructure Measure (SSHIM) and the Health Services Assessment Tool for Schools (HATS), provide opportunities to assess the extent of state-level infrastructure supports for school nursing and school health services. These instruments can be useful for planning and prioritizing to address needs to improve system-level quality and equity in school health services for the preK–12 population in each state.

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school nursing state-level infrastructure supports self-assessment equity

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