양호교사의 역할수행에 관한 조사연구 = Study on Role Performance of School Nurse

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is the ultimate purpose of school health management to protect, maintain, and prormote the students' health and to help for them to form a wholesome habit of health. To do this, school nurse is an actual professional personnel of school health management in our country. therefore, role performance of a school nurse is directly related to the quality of school health planning, we think.
With this belief, this study intends to revise, supplement Rustia model for school health promotion and develop in into a suitable model for our actual situation. In so doing, based on Rustia model, we had surveyed the actual situation of a school nurse's role performance by making 77 school nurses in Boys' and Girls' Middle and High Schools in Seoul as the scope of this research for a period of two months beginning on September 1, 1984. The results were analyzed by employing percentage and mean value. The results of the investigation are as follows:
1. General Characteristics of the school nurses and schools.
(1) The average age of the surveyed school nurses is 31.64± 6.6 years old. 81.6% of them was proved to have acquired academic background above Colleges and Graduate Schools; 74% were married; 61% were religious persons. And the average on-duty term was 6.42±5.03 years. 66.2% of them employed in the hospitals before this present job and 31.2% have worked at school as school nurses immediately after their graduation. In college, most of them (81.8%) went through a course of study for the teaching profession and only 9.1% of the taught other courses of study.
(2) The majority of the surveyed schools (51.9%) were public schools and 62.3% of them were middle Schools. The average number of students in the school was 2628.52;that of school pesonnel was 66.17±9.7;that of classes was 39.68±12.0.
2. Role performance for primary prevention.
(1) Among the serveyed schools, 83.1% of them performed epidemiological analysis of health problem for the promotion of health.
As for health planning among health management plan, all of them put it in force, however, only 35% of them participated in preparation of the budget to achieve it.
As to the evaluation program, 64.9% of them carry out it into operation and in case of being carried out once in a year marked the most frequency of enforcement as 32.4%.
On guidance and support related to health planning, 42.9% of them held a staff meeting; of which 53.2% were school nurse-teacher meeting; 28.6%, school nurse-parent meeting.
(2) To protect the students and school personnel from danger and injury, 67.5% of them participated in alleviating health problems-that is, the maintenance of health standard and safety within school, and inserting the means of settling those problems into curriculum and management of school events. Especially, only 14.3% administered school lighting and 35.1% observed safety standards of desks and chairs in class. Consequently, the result of this survey revealed that there is much to be desired in the administration for the maintenance of health standard and safety.
As for pervention of infectious disease, the following were implemented; a) disinfection of toilets (92.2%); b) control of drinking water (75.5%); c) purification of sewage and garbage incineration (74%). What is pecular is that 71.4% of them have controlled vaccination but enforcement rate shows lack of enthusiasm when viewed from the kinds of vaccination: Typhoid fever (51.9%), cholera (41.6%) hepatitis (9.0%), encephalitis (23.4%) and that one or two sorts of vaccination were treated.
As for the technical improvement of personnels who handled health problems, all of them put it in practice, and for prevention program and use of health resources, 87.5% participated in it.
3. Role performance for secondary prevention
(1) 92.2% of them carried out screening tests of a physical assessment for an early detect on health problem and 24.7% did a screening tests which made a part of students its object after the first screening tests. A selection and check-up of measurement tool during a developmental evaluation was taken effect by 98.7% and a preliminary education on the persons who administered that examination and determine to select a place for it by 100%.
Of discrimination and screening tests, various kinds of examination for finding disease was detected effectively by 98.7% and of this operation nothing could be come into force more than a check-up of parasites and urine with 97.4%.
As to the methods explaning danger of health and safety, the case to be offered school personnels information in a staff meeting marked 96.1% and the one to offer students information in the case of generating such danger as infectious diseases was 100%
(2) Control of health problem to be required regular treatment for taking a proper measure on that problem at an earlier time was carried into effect by 93.5%. 98.7% of them imposed a role of communication and intervention of offering and observation method for finding health problem and encourging this method to teacher in charge. All of them executed emergency care, School-nurses helped 33 persons a day on the average, and 89.6% of them did for students to get through a serious crisis.
(3) In order to prevent complication and an disable, 83.1% of them carried out a continuous follow-up care of the students who were discharged from the hospitals.
4. Role performance for tertiary prevention
(1) In order to care and treat the students who needed their rehabilitation and adaptation for activities of daily living, 89.6% of them performed reeducation after reevaluate their health status, 94.8% performed a role on motivation, 85.7% put in effect a continuous control of the students who needed rehabilitation and correction, and 15.6% did counselling for taking a measure to meet the situation of the disabled.
5. Role performance for health education.
Unifying health education from the view points of the first, secondary and tertiary prevention against diseases, we surveyed the content, method, objectives of health education which is now in effect and should be emphasized in the future.
Upon this study, we came to conclude as the following; as to the content of health education which is now is effect, prevention of infectious diseases has an absolute majority of all contents as 98.7%, and prevention against parasites, personal hygiene and oral hygiene second place. as 97.4% But education on prevention of venereal diseases shows inactiveness as 42.9%.
On the contents to be emphasized, mental health (42.9%), sex education (40.3%) were enumerated but nobody stated about prevention of infectious diseases.
As a method practising health education, all of them used that of counselling, and as an indirect education utilizing media, it comes printed matters (96.1%), poster (83.1%), interclass broadcasting casting (75.35) in that order. And the case of regular class on health education marked 23.4%, of the object of health education, 98.7% made students its object; 87.0% school personnels; 51.9% parents of students.