PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 4 October 1976, pp. 580-584
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The School Nurse Practitioner: Providing Improved Health Care to Children

Henry K. Silver M.D.1, Judith Bellaire Igoe M.S.1, and Patricia Rooney Mcatee M.S.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the Division of Continuing Education, University of Colorado School of Nursing, Denver

School nurse practitioners have the competence to participate in providing a broad range of direct primary health care and services to the school-age child. Greater utilization of these specially prepared and highly qualified nurse practitioners as providers of health care in the school is a practical and effective method of adding to the quality, availability, and continuity of health care for the school-age child.

Submitted on August 25, 1975
Accepted on January 12, 1976