[Competition in school nursing: the development of the nursing role and its influences].

This essay focuses on the competition between school nurses and the effect of such on the development of school nursing. As questions regarding the role that school nurses should play and what kind of functions they should have in school have yet to be answered, school nurses are sometimes considered as useless, with school healthcare suffering as a result. This essay first examines the development of professional school nursing in order to demonstrate the import role played by nurses in schools.