What is the Role of the School Nurse in a State-Mandated Hearing Screening?

What is the role of the School Nurse in a state-mandated hearing screening?
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Abstract
The threat of hearing loss if far greater these days due and increase in technological innovations and the risks of environmental hazards. Due to this, state governments have mandated necessitated hearing screenings as to provide an early detection system for threats of hearing loss on students. However, conducting this would be tedious and challenging if done in the home-setting. Thus, states required schools and universities to do full hearing tests for their students. Hearing screening tests are usually done for new-born children CITATION Cen15 \l 1033 (Center for Disease and Control, 2015). However, since children from the ages of 5-15 are also at risk, they also take this test compulsory.
What is the importance of the School Nurse in a State-mandated hearing screening?
The ones who are qualified in conducting the evaluation is an ‘audiologist’ or an ‘otorhinolaryngologist’ CITATION Ame12 \l 1033 (American Hearing Research Foundation, 2012). However, nurses are now being trained to be able to carry out these test in school clinics where the number of patients is significantly larger than what a specialist usually handle. Usually, a hearing screening should be conducted in children from 6 months to high school, but for a state-mandated procedure it is best to proceed with the kids ...