The Arkansas State Board of Nursing and Arkansas School Nurses Association collaborated to provide guidelines for nursing practice in the school setting. These guidelines will assist school nurses, educators, and administrators in determining the care and staff qualifications that are required for the health and welfare of their student population. While the school nurse and school environment are specifically named in the guidelines, the same principles are to be applied to any setting where nurses are acting in loco parentis.
"Loco parentis" exists when person undertakes care and control of another in absence of such supervision by latter's natural parents and in absence of formal legal approval, and is temporary in character and is not to be likened to an adoption which is permanent
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