LEVELS OF PREVENTION School nurses covers;
- Health services
Primodial - Health Education
Primary - healthy - Health School environment
activity: health promotion & disease
prevention RA. 124 - this is an act to provide medical
Secondary - at risk/high risk client inspection of children enrolled in private
activity: early detection/early management schools,colleges, and community.
Tertiary - post treatment 300 above enrollees needs to hire school
activity: physicians
maintenance/rehabilitation/palliative - health promotion of school personnel
care/supportive care - School-community project and outreach
- Nutrition and food safety
General - Focuses - Physical education and recreation
Soecific - disease=right medication - Mental health counseling & social supports
National Association of School Nurses (NASL)
2 cores Defines school nursing as specialize practice
Partnership with the people - involvement of profession nursing that advances the well
Empowerment with the people - transfer of being, academic success and lifetime
power achievement of students.
4 Pillars of PHC (Public Health Care) 8 COMPONENTS OF SCHOOL PROGRAM
1. Active community participation - family and community involvement
2. Intra & Intersectoral linkages - Health education - promote/prevent ilnesses
3. Use of appropriate technologies - Physical education - promote physical
4. Support mechanisms made available activity
- Health services
PHN (freeman) - synthesis of public health - Nutrition services
and nursing practice ; population focused ; - Counseling, psychological and social services
ifpc. - Health school environment
CHN - synthesis of nursing practice and public - Health promotion for staff
health applied to promoting and preventing Occupational health nursing
the health of population - it is the specialty practice that focuses on
the promotion, prevention and restoration of
Goals of CHN (client-centered) health within the context of a safe and
1. To promote and preserve health healthy environment.
2. To restore health when it is impaired - It includes the prevention of adverse health
3. To minimize suffering and distress effects from the occupational and
4. To promote quality of living environmental hazards.
5. To develop self care abilities - It provides for and delivers occupational and
environmental health and safety programs ad
services to clients.
Duties & Funcions of a nurse
* organizing and administering a health
service program. Integrating occupational physical, mental, and social wellbeing of
safety in the absence of a physician. workers in all occupation.
* Providing nursing care to injured or ill
workers. Fields of nursing
* Participating in health maintenance * Home Health Care - mainly to minimize the
examination if physician is not available- effects of illness and disability.
performing work activities that are within the * Hospice Home care - specifically for
scope of nursing practice. terminally ill patients. To provide comfort and
* Participating in the maintenance of support of quality if life as they go through
occupational health and safety by giving the dying process of family members.
suggestions in the working environment * Faith community nursing (Parish nursing) -
affecting the health and well being of health promotion and and disease prevention
workers. in holistic care manner to member of the faith
* Maintaining a reporting and record system if community. Recognizing spirituality as a core
physician is not available preparing and of nursing practice.
submitting an annual medical report using the * Correctional nursing - specialize subset from
prescribed form to the employer as required forensic nursing. Recognize the safety and
by the standard. security issues and the constitutional rights of
prisoners to receive adequate and timely
1. Presidential decree 442 : labor code of the healthcare.
Philippines.
2. Administrative code on comfoment of Types of communities
safety and health standards. * Urban
3. OSHS - occupational safety and health Density: high
standards. Interpersonal social relations: complex
4. Executive Order 307 - creating OSHC under Occupation: Trade & Commerce
the employees compensation commission . * Rural
5. PD 626 - employees compensation and Density: Low
state insurance fund. Interpersonal social relations: Simple
6. Hazard - specific laws regarding anti-sexual Occupation: Agricultural
harassment. * Rurban
7. RA 9165 - comprehensive drugs act of Density: equal
2002. Interpersonal social relations: equal
8. RA 6969 - Toxic substance abuse. Occupation: equal
9. RA 9231 - Special abuse, exploitation and * Suburban
discrimination act. Density: residential
10. RA 11058 - strengthening compliance with Interpersonal social relations: peripheri
OSHC act of 2017. Occupation:
* Metropolitan
Occupational safety health center (OSCH) & Density: megacity
DOLE - created occupational safety and health Interpersonal social relations: expanding
discipline urban areas
Is a dicipline involve in the promotion and Occupation:
maintenance of the highest degree of
