Mary M Ramos, Rachel Sebastian, Daniel Shattuck, Susan Acosta, Kim Zamarin
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Abstract
The professional experiences of school nurses who work outside of urban areas are not often described. We used data from a 2019 statewide survey of school nurses to describe differences between the urban and non-urban (urban cluster and rural) school nurse workforce in New Mexico. Non-urban school nurses were twice as likely as urban nurses to provide clinical services to multiple school campuses (P< .001) and more likely to serve both elementary and secondary school settings (P= .002). They were less likely than urban school nurses to be bachelor's prepared, or to have received recent continuing education on diabetes (P< .001), reproductive health (P = 0.02), LGBQ+ and transgender student health (P< .001, for each), and suicide risk assessment and screening (P= .012). Our findings underscore concerns about geographic differences in the school nursing workforce in terms of educational preparation and student access that could potentially limit the school nurse role in advancing child health equity.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed forum for improving the health of school children and the school community. The JOSN includes original research, research reviews, evidenced-based innovations in clinical practice or policy, and more. In addition to nursing, experts from medicine, public health, epidemiology, health services research, policy analysis, and education administration, also contribute.