The Healthy Menu Project: Role of the School Nurse: Youth-Adult Shared Partnerships Help Change a School Lunch Menu.

School nurses play an important role in addressing childhood obesity. Although schools who participate in the Federal School Lunch Program follow mandated dietary guidelines, changes to the menu can be made that will have a positive impact on the health of our school community. Students receive nutrition health education, including learning about the importance of choosing whole and unprocessed foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains and limiting sugars.

What's Up With "Step Up"? Step Up and Be Counted: The National Uniform School Nurse Data Set.

The health and well-being of children who attend school is not collected in any national data sets. To effectively advocate for the health needs of children where they live, learn, and play, it is essential to build a National Uniform School Nurse Data Set. In 2014, school nurses nationwide were invited to join the Step Up and Be Counted! initiative.

National standardized data set for school health-services: step up and be counted!

The National Association of School Nurses and National Association of State School Nurse Consultants Joint Work Group agreed on identified common data points and an initial process for nationwide data collection by school nurses. The emerging process was presented at both the 2014 National Association of School Nurses and the National Association of State School Nurse Consultants annual meetings in San Antonio. The time is now to begin the process for ALL school nurses to collect data to begin building a national school nursing data set.

Standardized data set for school health services: Part 1--getting to big data.

School nurses collect voluminous amounts of data in a variety of ways and use the data to describe trends in students' health and patterns of illness in the student population or to identify ways to improve care. NASN identified years ago that a national school nurse data set was needed to enable data-driven decision making for the millions of children who attend school each day across the United States. Informal work has been done in the past 5 years in preparation for the current joint NASN/ National Association of State School Nurse Consultants workgroup.