IS SCHOOL NURSING DNR?

摘要

School nursing is at best a mixed picture at the moment. On one hand, the . school nursing workforce in England including nurse consultants and school nurses without a school nurse qualification - has shrunk from a high of 3026 in January 2010 to 2396 in August 2017 (NHS Workforce Statistics, 2017) - a decrease of 21%. On the other, the number of nurses with the specialist community public health nursing (SCPHN) school nurse qualification on the NMC register - which covers all of the UK - increased by 17% from 3032 to 3556 between 2012 and 2017 (NMC, 2017). Note that these NMC figures don't mean all these people are working as school nurses, just that they hold the qualification.