Importance of Home visit for a School Nurse

Importance of Home visit for a School Nurse Student Name Professor Name Course Title Date Home visits programs for a school nurse provide support to parents to deal with health problems affecting their children. Moreover, the home visits programs assist the children in accessing mental and physical healthcare providers and address persistent school absenteeism for children. Home visits aid school nurses to discover factors that lead to children not to attend school. School nurses when conducting their home visits programs discover that some children suffer from different type of illnesses and their parents cannot afford the medication. Moreover, the illnesses cause the children to have a hard time getting the morning school bus, hence miss the school since they cannot afford other transportation to school. The school nurses liaise with school to offer appropriate accommodation and assist the family to acquire the medication, and create an arrangement when the child misses the bus. The school nurse efforts assist the child not to miss school (National association of school...