The role of the nurse in the school setting can include:
1. Providing medical diagnoses for children with illnesses.
2. Providing health assessment of infants of mothers enrolled in school.
3. Providing medication to children when requested without prescription.
4. Providing mental health therapy upon request.
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Rationale:
1. Establishing medical diagnoses is not within the realm of the registered professional nurse.
2. Nursing roles in the school setting focus on promoting the health and safety to the population of children enrolled, and providing direct care to ill and injured children. Children in the school setting can include infants if childcare is offered for adolescent mothers, as well as preschool-age children attending Head Start.
3. Nurses cannot provide medication, usually even over-the-counter medications, to children without prescription and written permission of the parent or guardian.
4. Nurses might suggest that a child obtain mental health therapy, but would not provide the therapy even upon request.
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