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Francis, Lucine; Meraj, Shafkat; Konduru, Divya; Perrin, Eliana M. – Journal of School Nursing, 2023
Access to menstrual products is important to support adolescent health. Advocacy to increase access to menstrual products in schools is growing; however, ideal access requires policies that will require schools to support the menstrual health of menstruating students. We conducted a legislative review on the existence and status of state…
Descriptors: Females, Physiology, Hygiene, Adolescents
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Moriarty Daley, Alison; Polifroni, E. Carol – Journal of School Nursing, 2018
Adolescents often face hurdles that may interfere with accessing contraceptive services. School-based health centers (SBHCs) are available to many teens in the United States; however, only half of SBHCs that serve adolescents are permitted to provide contraception. The aim of this descriptive phenomenological study was to describe the lived…
Descriptors: Adolescents, School Nurses, School Health Services, Contraception
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Griswold, Carol H.; Nasso, Jacqueline T.; Swider, Susan; Ellison, Brenda R.; Griswold, Daniel L.; Brooks, Marilyn – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
School absenteeism and poor compliance with prenatal appointments are concerns for pregnant teens. The Prenatal Care at School (PAS) program is a new model of prenatal care involving local health care providers and school personnel to reduce the need for students to leave school for prenatal care. The program combines prenatal care and education…
Descriptors: Attendance, Surveys, Prenatal Care, Compliance (Psychology)
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McLeod, Renee P. – Journal of School Nursing, 2004
This article presents a short dermatological case presentation involving a 9-year-old black female student who suffered from a severe case of atopic dermatitis (AD). Health history, physical findings on the subject, and differential diagnosis, such as impetigo, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, scabies, and seborrheic dermatitis, are given.…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Child Health, Children, African Americans
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Samargia, Luzette A.; Saewyc, Elizabeth M.; Elliott, Barbara A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2006
Adolescents forego mental health care in spite of self-perceived needs for services; this presents a significant public health problem. Using data from the 2001 Adolescent Health Care Access Survey of 16-year-olds in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, we assessed barriers to mental health care among the 878 respondents who reported ever needing…
Descriptors: Females, Public Health, Mental Health, Adolescents
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Cavendish, Roberta – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are the boundaries of Lyme disease with the Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States continuing to report the majority of cases. New reported cases of Lyme disease doubled from 1991 to 2001 according to statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2002). Within that…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Health Education, School Nurses, Diseases