NASN school nurse
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Case Reports
School Nurses on the Front Lines of Medicine: An Adolescent Female Student with Severe Abdominal Pain.
Abdominal pain is a common chief complaint encountered by school nurses. This article explains the etiology of abdominal pain in children and adolescents, describes the office assessment, and delineates life-threatening conditions associated with severe abdominal pain that may prompt the school nurse to transfer the student to a local emergency department.