School-based clinics and the pediatric nurse: an interview with Surgeon General designee M. Joycelyn Elders. Interview by Judith E. Vessey and Margo N. Swanson.

Among Dr. Joycelyn Elders' goals as Surgeon General is to work toward a national school-based clinic program. In this interview, she speaks with Pediatric Nursing regarding the implementation of school-based clinics in Arkansas, arguments for and against school-based clinics, the financial responsibility for these clinics, and the role of pediatric nurses in this segment of health care reform.