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Legal Issues in School Nursing Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2021

Sarah D. Cohn
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School health nursing in the United States began in 1902 when a school nurse named Lina Rogers was placed in four New York City schools. Her work and that of twenty-five other nurses hired a month later quickly reduced the number of children excluded from school for communicable diseases from 10,567 in September 1902 to 1101 in September 1903. The number of excluded children could be reduced so dramatically because the school nurse was available to educate parents and staff and because she was able to make home visits to known cases of disease.

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Nursing Law and Ethics
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Law, Medicine and Healthcare , Volume 12 , Issue 5 , October 1984 , pp. 219 - 221
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© 1984 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

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