217565 Measuring school nursing outcomes

Monday, November 8, 2010

Martha Dewey Bergren, DNS RN NCSN FNASN FASHA , Director of Research, National Association of School Nurses, Silver Spring, MD
     
Nurse leaders in the acute care setting have made great advances in identifying structure, process, and outcome indicators to evaluate care. School nursing leaders are identifying comparable potential indicators for the school health setting. This session will provide an update of those efforts. School health and public health researchers and program evaluators are encouraged to incorporate identified indicators in empirical studies and evaluations.

Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and prevention
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health or related nursing
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss the status of identifying critical sensitive school nursing indicators 2. List potential critical sensitive school nursing indicators identified to date 3. Promote the use of critical sensitive school nursing indicators in research and evaluation

Keywords: Outcome Measures, School Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As NASN Director of Research, I am monitoring the development of critical indicators for school nursing
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes

Name of Organization Clinical/Research Area Type of relationship
National Association of School Nurses nursing Employment (includes retainer)

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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