Afrooz Bibi

Department of Nursing, Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, Swat, KPK, Pakistan

Publications
  • Mini Review   
    The Role and Future of School Nurse in Pakistan
    Author(s): Amir Sultan*, Sheraz Khan* and Afrooz Bibi

    In the 21st century, the concept of school nurses is new in Pakistan, but in the developed world like the USA there history starts from 1902. National Association of school nurses has explained that a school nurse is “a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students”. The school nurse plays an important role in the health and education system in developed countries and can be a front-line health worker for the children of Pakistan in schools. Pakistan is among those countries where there is a lack of knowledge about immunization, children’s suffer from malnutrition, poverty, inadequate sanitation, unhygienic water, domestic violence, lack of awareness about the waterborne, foodborne, communicable, and noncommunicable diseases, children’s with injuries, acute .. View more»

    DOI: 10.35248/2155-9627.22.13.401

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