Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services: A Role for the School Nurse

Morbidity and mortality for today's adolescent are linked most often to complex behavioral and psychosocial risk factors than in the past. The American Medical Association has developed Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) to assist the primary health practitioner in deterring a...

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Published in:The Journal of school health 1996-10, Vol.66 (8), p.281-285
Main Authors: Allensworth, Diane DeMuth, Bradley, Beverly
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Health Services - organization & administration
Adolescent Health Services - standards
Adolescents
Adult
Associations
Behavior
Child
Child Health
Community-Institutional Relations
Company business management
Guidelines
Health Promotion
Health Risk Appraisal
High schools
Humans
Management
Mass Screening - methods
Medical societies
Medicine, Preventive
Mental Health
Morbidity
Nurses
Nursing
Patient Care Planning - standards
Physical Health
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Prevention
Preventive health services
Preventive medicine
Professional associations
Referral and Consultation - organization & administration
Risk Reduction
School Health Services
School Health Services - organization & administration
School Nurses
School nursing
School Nursing - organization & administration
School Nursing - standards
Screening Tests
Secondary Education
Secondary School Students
Special Needs Students
Student health services
Teaching
Teenagers
Youth
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Summary:Morbidity and mortality for today's adolescent are linked most often to complex behavioral and psychosocial risk factors than in the past. The American Medical Association has developed Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) to assist the primary health practitioner in deterring adolescents from participating in health‐debilitating behaviors and to promote health‐enhancing behaviors. Studies have affirmed usefulness of the GAPS protocol in the private practitioner's office and in the school‐based clinic. This paper explores the possibility of using the traditional school nurse to deliver the GAPS in collaboration with school and community professionals. Issues explored include identifying students for he screening, administering the survey, triage of students, interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration, confidentiality, barriers, and time constraints. (J Sch Health. 1996;66(8):281–285)
ISSN:0022-4391
1746-1561
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.1996.tb03399.x