School Nurses on the Front Lines of Healthcare: Serious Infections in Students and Their Common Presenting Complaints
School nurses occasionally deal with students presenting with serious infections associated with common chief complaints. Although rare, the implications of missing the signs and symptoms of these infections are potentially life-threatening and devastating, with both immediate and long-term complications. Rapid recognition and stabilization, with immediate transfer to the closest emergency department via emergency medical services for antibiotic administration, is the key to reducing morbidity and mortality associated with these serious infections. We discuss three students presenting with febrile illnesses associated with chest pain, headache, and back pain, focusing on the initial assessment and management of these students and their common presenting complaints.
Lauren McNickle et al, School Nurses on the Front Lines of Healthcare: Serious Infections in Students and Their Common Presenting Complaints, NASN School Nurse (36, 1) pp. . Copyright © 2020. DOI: 10.1177/1942602X20933680. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.
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Publication Date | June 19, 2020 |
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