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)