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School Nurse Ratios by State and FAQs - Includes Ratio Ruler graphic
The 2011 rule is the most current data available. We are currently investigating the best way to represent workload across the nation and so we are not updating it at this time.
[View Ratio Sources]

Garcia A. (2009). Dear Lillian ... Convincing my school district to lower the nurse to student ratio to 1:750. NASN School Nurse, 24(5), 198-199.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2010). Charting nursing’s future: Unlocking the potential of school nursing: Keeping children healthy, in school, and ready to learn. Retrieved from: http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2010/rwjf64263

School nursing services in the U.S.: Where are we? Where do we need to go? A review of a 2007 NASN commissioned study on school nursing and student health
[Click here to read the entire study, School Nursing in the United States: A quantitative study. (2007). Silver Spring, MD: National Association of School Nurses]

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Student-to-School Nurse Ratio Improvement Bills

Statement for Healthy People 2020 Stakeholders Meeting

National School Nurse Day

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The Role of the School Nurse (NASN Position Statement)

Caseload Assignments (NASN Position Statement)

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The National Association of School Nurses is a non-profit specialty nursing organization, incorporated in 1979, which represents school nurses exclusively. NASN has 16,000 members and 50 affiliates, including the District of Columbia and overseas.

Mission: The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) advances the specialty practice of school nursing to improve the health and academic success of all students.
Vision: NASN is the indispensable resource to the global health community.

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A Simple Act from filmmaker Greg Shea with Elizabeth Paquette
NASN member, Elizabeth Paquette of Massachusetts helped make a difference in the life of a family. See how a simple act can bring about the miracles school nurses inspire every day. This film – A Simple Act – is screening at film festivals and will be available soon. View the film's trailer below.

For more information, visit the film on Facebook and 14steps.org.

A Simple Act - Trailer 2 from Greg Shea on Vimeo.