According to a school nurse from Woking, Surrey, "school nurses in Great Britain are a group who are just developing and finding their own identity." In a country that offers short courses on the nursing of elderly people, care of the violent or potentially violent individual, principles of stoma care, and nursing for gastrointestinal endoscopy, courses in school nursing have been offered only for a short time period. School nurses in Great Britain work amid the latest technology and provide both modern and traditional screening services. As a group they probably have much in common with their counterparts in the United States.