Contributing 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
- Författare
- Marie Golsäter, Karin Enskär, Susanne Knutsson
- Titel
- Contributing 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
- Utgivningsår
- 2017
- Tidskrift
- Nursing Open
- Volym
- 4
- Häfte
- 4
- Sidor
- 267-273
- Url
- doi: 10.1002/nop2.92
- Nyckelord
- children; content analysis; parental illness; school nurse; school situation
- Sammanfattning
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.