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Maintaining professional confidence – monitoring work with obese schoolchildren with support of an action plan
Author(s) -
Müllersdorf Maria,
Zuccato Linda Martinson,
Nimborg Jennie,
Eriksson Henrik
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2009.00696.x
Subject(s) - delicacy , action plan , action (physics) , work (physics) , conversation , task (project management) , medical education , psychology , medicine , plan (archaeology) , qualitative research , nursing , childhood obesity , obesity , applied psychology , sociology , overweight , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , history , social science , physics , communication , systems engineering , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology
Scand J Caring Sci; 2010; 24; 131–138Maintaining professional confidence – monitoring work with obese schoolchildren with support of an action plan School nurses meet obese children in their everyday work. Although school nurses acknowledge the importance of getting hold of school children’s obesity, they seem to lack strategies enabling them to handle the delicacy of the problem. The aim of this study was to describe how school nurses perceive their work with obese children with support of an action plan. Qualitative in‐depth interviews were performed with six school nurses working in a municipality, where an action plan for the work with obese school‐age children had been implemented. The transcribed data was analysed by a manifest content analysis. The results showed that the informants perceived having a key role in the obesity work, which they experienced as meaningful, but full of pitfalls. They found themselves suitable for the task, but perceived lacking deeper knowledge about specific modes of work such as motivational conversation. As the task was considered delicate, there were great demands for guidelines, education and cooperation. The action plan served as support for maintaining professional confidence throughout the process, but there was room for improvements.