Nurse Practitioners and School Nurse Practitioners

Abstract

In the November 1974 issue of Pediatrics McAtee and Silver discussed pediatric and school nurse practitioners, commenting that many in the nursing profession are dissatisfied with their role. The needs and desires of nurses and, in the commentaries, the needs of pediatricians were discussed but no one spoke for the needs of children and their families. None of the principals involved have ever really been in the primary practice of pediatrics. Few pediatric professors have had any successful long-term experience in private practice—the one place where they might learn the needs of parents and children and understand the effects of long-term health supervision.