School Nurses' Perspectives on Barriers to Implementing School-Based Asthma Management Plans

Results 187 school nurses responded and 61% of respondents' students had asthma management plans. 98% of nurses reported that communication between themselves and providers would improve if management plans included prescriptions. 59.6% "most preferred" to identify students by written provider orders, yet only 41% of nurses "most commonly" identified students with asthma by written provider orders. 47.3% of nurses "commonly" identified students with asthma only upon presentation to their office at school. 0% and 39.5% of nurses "always" communicated with providers and caretakers respectively, when seeing students with asthma in their office.