Kontakt 2009, 11(1):142-148 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2009.026

School nurse - requirements for the future or for the present time?Potřeba rozvoje ošetřovatelské komunitní péče

Mária Boledovičová^1,*, Erika Krištofová¹, Iveta Nádaská¹, Katarína Zlochová²

¹ Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, Fakulta sociálnych vied a zdravotníctva, Nitra

² Vysoká škola zdravotníctva a sociálnej práce sv. Alžbety, Bratislava

The central idea of the contribution is a support and protection of the health of children for a period of the school attendance. The target of the work is to demonstrate the work of a school nurse and stress the requirements for school nurses graduated from universities in practice of our educational system. The work is primarily oriented at nursery and its interconnection with the educational and healthcare systems. The subject of the research was the consideration of the attitude of school directors and physicians to the introduction of school nurses to practice. We employed the contents analysis of documents, method of interview and questionnaire inquiring. The sample group included 139 physicians and 136 directors of kindergartens and primary schools in Slovakia and documents concerning the school healthcare service. The results of questionnaires and interviews demonstrated a positive attitude to the project of the school nurse and implementation of her position in practice, since the scope of her work (Table 4) was positively evaluated by 52 % and 46 % of physicians vs. 65 % and 34 % of directors, respectively, and only 1% vs. 2% considered it as insufficient. The agreement with her introduction to practice (Table 5) was expressed or completely expressed by 47 % or 50 % of physicians, respectively, vs. 57 % or 33 % of directors, respectively.

Keywords: school nurse; health of children; school system; school supporting health; family

Received: October 6, 2008; Accepted: January 28, 2009; Published: May 27, 2009  Show citation