Open AccessContributing to making the school a safe place for the child: School nurses’ perceptions of their assignment when caring for children having parents with serious physical illness
Author(s) -
Golsäter Marie,
Enskär Karin,
Knutsson Susanne
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nursing open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2054-1058
DOI - 10.1002/nop2.92
Subject(s) - perception , qualitative research , nursing , psychology , qualitative analysis , medicine , sociology , social science , neuroscience
Abstract Aim To explore how school nurses perceive their assignment when caring for children having parents with serious physical illness. Design An explorative inductive qualitative design. Method The study is based on interviews with 16 school nurses. The interviews were subjected to qualitative content analysis. Results The main category, “Contribute in making the school a safe place for the child”, reveals how the school nurses try to contribute to making the school a safe place for a child when his/her parent has a serious physical illness. They support children through individual support, as well as at an overall level in the school health team to make the school, as an organization, a safe place. Routines and collaboration to recognize the child when his/her parent has become ill is described as crucial to accomplishing this assignment.