Right skills, right role, right time: Strengthening school nursing through skill mix and service delivery evidence

Key Points

• The aim is to improve the effectiveness of school nursing services by addressing gaps in workforce and skill distribution.
• Review of current challenges in school nursing
• Assessment of workforce shortages
• Analysis of skill mix strategies
• Development of a shared evidence base through NASNA and SAPHNA
• Identified critical workforce shortages impacting school nursing
• Recognized the need for consistent skill mix to boost service delivery
• Emphasized the importance of updated guidance from the Healthy Child Programme