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Secondary School Nursing

The Secondary School Nursing Program aims to reduce risk to young people and promote better health in the wider community. The Program employs 100 nurses in 199 Government Secondary Schools across Victoria.

The objectives of the program are to:

  • Play a key role in reducing negative health outcomes and risk taking behaviours among young people, including drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco smoking, eating disorders, obesity, depression, suicide and injuries
  • Focus on prevention of ill health and problem behaviours by ensuring coordination between the school and community based health and support services
  • Support the school community in addressing contemporary health and social issues facing young people and their families
  • Place nurses in areas of greatest health need and socioeconomic disadvantage
  • Provide appropriate primary health care through professional clinical nursing, including assessment, care, referral and support
  • Establish collaborative working relationships deal with any difficulties in their transition from primary to secondary school.

The nurses employed in the program are based in two schools each and are employed through the Department with a major role in health promotion and primary prevention.

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