Whole Community Model

This article takes a critical look at the affects the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model released in 2015 as a collaboration between associations focuses renewed attention on the importance of improved physical, emotional, and social health to student learning (Galemore, Bowlen, Laurie G. Combie, & Porter, 2016). School nurses have the power to connect stakeholders in creating healthy school and community environments. As a result, many school campuses have benefited from the advocacy efforts of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). This organization spends countless hours educating and influencing legislators of optimal and safe nursing care each student requires to become successful. The NASN vision that “every student is healthy, safe, and ready to learn,” is the driving force behind their culture of health campaign. According to Barsky, “Advocacy refers to influencing decisions affecting the welfare or interests of another individual or group (Barsky, 2017). Advocacy is not something new for nursing. The American Nurses Association (ANA) recognizes that nurses in their everyday practice are …show more content…
School nurses are committed to a culture of health in their schools. It’s been said that American’s suffer from obesity and the related illnesses that accompany this condition. A healthy community where children and their families can prosper is a vision held by many school nurses. With the innovative ideas of school nurses, the culture of health can become contagious. One nurse advocated for her school and requested and received a $25,000 grant to fund a campus kinesthetic reading lab. The results are already being seen by the school. Teacher reports of participating students’ having improved academic scores and classroom discipline. Most impressive of all, the rate of student obesity is on the