School Nurse Practice: A Descriptive Spanish Study.

Autor:	Arrue-Gerra M; Hospital Universitario de San Sebastián, Osakidetza, San Sebastian, Spain.; Health Faculty, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain., Barrio-Cortes J; Health Faculty, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain.; Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care, Madrid, Spain., Lozano-Hernández CM; Health Faculty, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain.; Foundation for Biosanitary Research and Innovation in Primary Care, Madrid, Spain., Ruiz-Janeiro J; School Nurses, Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain., Ruiz-Zaldibar C; Health Faculty, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain., Ruiz-López M; Health Faculty, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses [J Sch Nurs] 2024 Aug; Vol. 40 (4), pp. 380-390. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 12.
DOI:	10.1177/10598405221111567
Abstrakt:	This study aimed to describe the profile and practices of school nurses working at a network of educational centers in Spain. This was a descriptive study of the documented actions of 107 school nurses between September 2018 and June 2021 in 54 educational centers (55.6% private and 44.4% subsidized). The profile of the school nurses was young (average age 33.8 [standard deviation (SD) = 7.7] years) and predominantly female (91.6%) with a diverse and multidisciplinary education, primarily at the postgraduate level (specialized mainly in emergency care, nursing/school health, and pediatrics/neonatology). They carried out 256,499 interventions. The most frequent types of incidents they treated were accidents (30.4%) and disease-related episodes (22.2%). The interventions were usually brief (average time 7.7 min) and were resolved by the school nurse (99.1%), and the main recipients were students (87.3%). The highest incidence of interventions occurs during breaks between classes. Acute interventions occupied most of the school nurses' time, leaving little opportunity for health education (0.3%). School nurses played an important role in preserving and promoting the health of school populations and cost-savings to healthcare systems with the actions that they performed. Descriptions of these actions are essential when advocating for the continuation and expansion of school nursing services. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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