The school nurse fulfills multiple roles which serve to promote student health and educational success including; providing direct care and assessments to students and populations, providing leadership for the provision of health services and programmatic coordination on the local, regional and state level, providing/coordinating screening and referral for health conditions, promoting a healthy school environment, promoting/providing health education, referral and advocacy, serving in leadership roles for health policies and programs, being a member of the multidisciplinary educational team, being a liaison between school personnel, family, health care professionals, and the community, and a case manager to chronically ill students including delegation of care needs and health services delivery oversight. Serve as a member of a multidisciplinary student support team, providing health counsel in the development and implementation of both Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and Section 504b Plans for students with chronic health conditions.