What is it about?

Barriers to accurate data are misunderstanding of accurate data needs, student caseloads that exceed the national recommendations, lack of electronic student health records, and electronic student health records that do not collect the indicators using the standardized terminology or definitions. The quality of the data that school nurses report and share has an impact at the personal, district, state, and national levels and influences the confidence and quality of the decisions made using that data.

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Why is it important?

The quality of the data that school nurses report and share has an impact at the personal, district, state, and national levels and influences the confidence and quality of the decisions made using that data.

Perspectives

Each nurse has a vested interest in quality data to advise policy and practice

Dr. Martha Dewey Bergren
University of Illinois-Chicago

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This page is a summary of: Creating a Culture of Accurate and Precise Data, NASN School Nurse, January 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1942602x16682733.
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