Health needs assessments, mental-health first aid, signposting, and the practicalities of Gillick competence and consent in the school setting.
As a school nurse, you bridge clinical care and education. You may be the first health professional a young person speaks to about anxiety linked to online life, about a friend self-harming, or about an unwanted sexual image being shared. You also lead on health needs assessments, immunisation programmes, and the small but vital interventions that prevent escalation. This guide focuses on the safeguarding-adjacent decisions you make every day: consent under Gillick, confidentiality limits, and the signposting that takes a young person from worried to supported.
Young people often disclose to school nurses what they will not tell their GP or their parents. That privileged access carries weight: a clear, calm response opens the door to help; a defensive or rule-bound one slams it shut. Online-facilitated harm — sextortion, cyberbullying, self-harm content — increasingly arrives in your room as 'I just can't sleep' or 'I keep getting headaches'. Asking the next question matters.
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