Dealing with adolescents' recurrent pain problems in school health care—Swedish school nurses' view

Autor: Marie Golsäter, Stefan Nilsson, Helena Wigert
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nursing Open, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 1626-1633 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2054-1058
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.371
Popis: Abstract Aim To explore school nurses' strategies for supporting adolescents with recurrent pain. Design An explorative inductive qualitative design. Method Twenty‐one Swedish school nurses were interviewed, and the interviews were subjected to content analysis. Results The findings show that the nurses are aware that recurrent pain problems are common among the adolescents. In their attempt to support these adolescents, the nurses describe how they are striving in attempts to acquire an understanding of the adolescents' situation, to understand the cause of the pain problem and to devise strategies that can be used to help the adolescents handle the situation.
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