Cooperation between parents and school nurses in primary schools: parents’ perceptions

Abstract

Parents do not know about school nurses' work and school health services. They would like to be more involved in school nursing activities. When developing children's health services, parents' expertise in their children's well-being should be paid more attention. This study enhances the knowledge of family nursing by describing Finnish parents' perceptions of cooperation with school nurses. The findings facilitate the understanding of cooperation in school health services.

Adolescents’ and school nurses’ perceptions of using a health and lifestyle tool in health dialogues

“…2007, Golsäter et al. 2010) and parents (Mäenpää & Åstedt‐Kurki 2008) have argued for dialogues based on the individual’s own situation instead of on general recommendations for healthy lifestyles. Since different aspects influence each individual in different ways, an extensive tool with a questionnaire could be one way to illuminate the most important aspects of health and lifestyle.…”

“…Parents do not always get information about their adolescents’ visits with the school nurse (Mäenpää & Åstedt‐Kurki 2008, Read et al. 2009).…”

Parents' and teachers' expectations of school nurse roles: A scale development study

“…There have been many studies examining the SN's roles and functions by assessing the perceptions of the school administrators [12], [16], teachers [4], [17], SNs [12], [16], [18] and parents [3], [17], [19], [20], [21], [22].…”

“…Maenpaa and Ǻstedt-Kurki [21] found that parents did not know about school nurses' work and school health services. In some research which investigated the perceptions of primary school parents toward SN roles, majority of the parents believed that the SN had the responsibility of providing first aid and emergency care to students and perform health screenings [3], [22], [23].…”

Family–school nurse partnership in primary school health care

“…Focusing more on family resources and relations at school health care have a positive effect on the child’s health promotion (12). School nurses play an important role in promoting the health and well‐being of school‐aged children and their families (2, 12–14) in addition to being a supportive adult, who listens and whom pupils and their parents can trust (15). Cooperation with parents is important to gain a parental perspective on the child’s health.…”