Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Publication Title
The Journal of School Nursing
Keywords
nursing process, prioritization, population health, school nursing
Abstract
With a median caseload of 750–1,000 clients, school nurses face setting-specific challenges involving multiple, competing demands. This necessitates effective prioritization to prevent missed opportunities to provide appropriate care. This integrative review synthesizes the current state of the literature related to prioritization among school nurses in the United States. Three themes were identified relating to prioritization among school nursing: knowledge, attitudes and values; self-efficacy and intention to act; and the nursing process. The prioritization behavior of school nurses can be facilitated by organizational and community collaboration and strong evidence-based practice recommendations. High workloads and inadequate resources among school nurses are the most consistently cited barriers to effective prioritization. Additional research on how to improve effective prioritization among school nurses for the improvement of population health outcomes is needed.
Funding Source
This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Sage Journals..
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
DOI
10.1177/10598405251371765
Recommended Citation
Calvillo MI, Calderon SJ, Rabbitte M, Stockmann C, Henry S. Prioritization Among School Nurses: An Integrative Review of the Literature. The Journal of School Nursing. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405251371765
Comments
First published in The Journal of School Nursing (2025): https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405251371765