Revista de Investigación Clínica y Bioética

Abstracto

The Role and Future of School Nurse in Pakistan

Amir Sultan, Sheraz Khan, Afrooz Bibi

In the 21st century, the concept of school nurses is new in Pakistan, but in the developed world like the USA there history starts from 1902. National Association of school nurses has explained that a school nurse is “a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students”. The school nurse plays an important role in the health and education system in developed countries and can be a front-line health worker for the children of Pakistan in schools. Pakistan is among those countries where there is a lack of knowledge about immunization, children’s suffer from malnutrition, poverty, inadequate sanitation, unhygienic water, domestic violence, lack of awareness about the waterborne, foodborne, communicable, and noncommunicable diseases, children’s with injuries, acute illness and chronic illness which affects children’s physically as well as psychologically and a school nurse can screen these issues and can work on the management of these problems with school administrations and family members. School nurses as regular employ in schools they can give students lectures regards health promotion and prevention from diseases that will bring awareness in students’ regards their health and the burden on our health system will also decrease in long term. Pakistan is facing an economic crisis but the start recruitment could be started from the public schools of Pakistan and steadily the government can work on it step by step at the national level. There should be clear criteria for the recruitment like diploma or degree and having the license of Pakistan nursing council, to keep safe our children’s from the quacks.