What led to school nurses moving beyond the role of screening, assessment, intervention, and exclusion of children for communicable diseases?
a. A communicable disease outbreak, which led to the requirement that all children be vaccinated against common infectious diseases
b. Federal legislation, which required immunizations for communicable diseases
c. Political movements such as temperance, which led schools to educate about the effects of alcohol
d. The need for inspecting schools to identify children who were ill and exclude them until they were no longer infectious
Ans: c. Political movements such as temperance, which led schools to educate about the effects of alcohol
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