Table 2 - uploaded by Susan A Boland-Shepherd
Content may be subject to copyright.
Source publication
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore school nurses’ (SN) perceptions of factors influencing their ability to identify, refer, and provide mental health services to students with early signs of mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) needs. The National Research Council and Institute of Medicine have urged a preventive public health...
Context in source publication
Similar publications
Professional identities are important in defining workers' roles, and are concerned with attributes relating to those roles and how they are performed. Evidence shows mental health nurses undertake many different roles as part of their work. Yet, the roles of mental health nurses are insufficiently understood by healthcare staff, service users, and...
Citations
... Frequent clinic visitors, especially those with somatic complaints unsupported by physical findings, are carefully assessed for underlying psychoemotional concerns. Stevenson (2010), Shannon and Bergren (2010), Pavletic (2011), andBoland-Shepard (2012) report that complaints of headache, stomachache, nausea, tiredness, as well as other vague and variable symptoms may be related to unmet needs of a mental, emotional, or behavioral nature, necessitating a referral to counseling. In a 2013 position statement, The National Association of School Nurses states: ''Understanding the relationship between frequent health office visits or somatic complaints as a sign of underlying problems, which may be organic or psycho-emotional in origin, requires the unique skill set of the school nurse.'' ...
Adolescents who attend high school as preparatory boarding students are growing up and learning to care for themselves in a very different set of circumstances than those who live at home with their families. Although this choice may present myriad opportunities for personal growth and academic advantages, nurturance and support from caring adults is necessary to foster health and well-being. Our model of a collaborative relationship between nursing and counseling in providing health services to the adolescents in our care at St. Mark’s School is designed to effectively meet this challenge. While it is true that a very small percentage of adolescents attend preparatory boarding schools in the United States, this article is an attempt to present our working model for consideration by other school nurses and counselors in our field of practice, especially since there is a lack of professionally relevant current literature for reference.
