School Nurse Staffing in Texas Alternative High Schools: A Mixed Methods Exploration.
| Autor: | Johnson, Karen E., Thurman, Whitney, Hoskote, Ashwini, Preston, Angela, Rew, Lynn, Maughan, Erin D. |
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HIGH schools
NURSES EVIDENCE-based nursing COST effectiveness HEALTH status indicators RESEARCH funding PSYCHOLOGY of high school students NURSE-patient ratio INVESTMENTS INTERVIEWING QUESTIONNAIRES EVALUATION of medical care NURSING DESCRIPTIVE statistics CHI-squared test WORKING hours TEENAGERS' conduct of life SCHOOL nursing RESEARCH methodology NURSES' attitudes ACADEMIC achievement HEALTH equity SOCIAL support MEDICAL needs assessment COMPARATIVE studies DATA analysis software CONFIDENCE intervals SCHOOL health services |
| Zdroj: | Journal of School Nursing; Oct2024, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p491-503, 13p |
| Abstrakt: | School nurses represent cost-effective investments in students' health and educational success. Alternative high schools (AHSs) serve an understudied population of youth who are at risk for school dropout and face numerous social inequities, heightening their risk for poor health outcomes. In this two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods study, we examined school nurse staffing in Texas AHSs. Findings suggest Texas AHSs face understaffing for familiar reasons common across districts (e.g., lack of funding), but also reveal potential deeper inequities. Quantitative findings indicate 71% of Texas AHSs have some form of nursing support, most often an on-call or part-time nurse. Qualitative findings support and enrich this finding with insights into the negative consequences of not having a full-time nurse, indiscriminate approaches to staffing AHSs, and how AHSs can be the only school in the district without a full-time nurse. Altogether, our findings reveal opportunities to better support AHSs with adequate nursing support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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