| Mission Statement and Philosophy The Saint Paul Public Schools Student Health and Wellness staff believe:
Healthy students are better learners; therefore we strive to promote healthy lifestyles and a healthy school environment
All children and their families have a right to education that guides them toward self-awareness and self-realization in meeting the needs of complex living.
The purpose of school nursing is:
- To enhance the educational process by the modification or removal of health-related barriers to learning and by promotion of an optimal level of wellness.
- To develop individual health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health-compromising ones.
- To encourage students to be knowledgeable consumers of the health care system in order to make wise decisions about their personal health needs.
- To provide those nursing and medically delegated services to students that must be provided during the school day in order for the student to benefit from an appropriate education.
- To protect the health and well-being of children and youth.
(Student Health and Wellness: Manual for School Nursing Practice) |