Role of School Nursing for progressive and safe return to classroom: COVID-19, A review for Latin America

Abstract

This paper is a documentary review carried out on scientific publications registered in Scopus during 2020 and the first semester of 2021 in Latin America, regarding the role of School Nursing during the return to school after the pandemic decreed in 2019 by the World Health Organization (WHO) that forced the world governments to a preventive and mandatory confinement with the purpose of reducing the number of contagions and deaths. The objective of this research was to know the main characteristics of the scientific documents published, identifying a total of 260 papers, from which Brazil is recognized as the Latin American country with the highest number of publications related to the proposed topic, registering 181 documents. Eighty percent of the identified publications correspond to journal papers, being this type of publication the one chosen by most of the authors. Similarly, a qualitative analysis was made of different examples of publications identified with the purpose of knowing the position of some authors regarding the role of school nursing in the return to school after the lifting of the restrictive measures.