Connecting With Frequent Adolescent Visitors to the School Nurse Through the Use of Intentional Interviewing

Pavletic, Adria C.

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“…Providing copies of work on this topic (Hojat, 2009;Kelley et al, 2011;Neukrug, Bayne, Dean-Nganga, & Pusateri, 2013;Pavletic, 2011) will give learners a framework on which to build a thorough understanding of the principles of effective compassionbased, empathetically enhanced communication.…”

Section: Professional Development Implicationsmentioning

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Teaching Empathy and Other Compassion-Based Communication Skills

Kelley

2013

Journal for Nurses in Professional Development

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Empathy plays an important role in comprehensive nursing care. Empathy outcome research shows that exposure to an empathetic person has a palliative and even healing effect on patients. Teaching nurses how to communicate with empathy is crucial to unleash the true potential that empathy has to transform and heal. Four active listening skills and six compassion-based skills are defined. A suggested training rubric appropriate for use in multiple training contexts is provided.

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Section: Professional Development Implicationsmentioning

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Teaching Empathy and Other Compassion-Based Communication Skills

Kelley

2013

Journal for Nurses in Professional Development

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“…The importance of the relationship between SNs and adolescents with health complaints is highlighted by Pavletic [ 22 ] and Svebak et al [ 23 ], who found that the level of student complaints tended to decline with access to the school nursing service. Further, Borup et al [ 24 ] concluded that visiting the SN might reduce students’ proneness to the use of medication when they experience aches and psychological problems.…”

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How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

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BackgroundPain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15–30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including pain. Yet research on how school nurses perceive the pain experienced by adolescents is limited. The aim of the present study was to explore how school nurses explain and experience the everyday pain of adolescents.MethodA qualitative study with an explorative design comprising five focus group interviews. Each group consisted of three to five school nurses. Seventeen female school nurses in five junior high schools in Norway, age range 29–65 years participated. To cover the issues a semi structured interview guide was used. The transcribed text was analysed with qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe experience of school nurses with adolescents’ pain in everyday life is mainly that pain is a social, physical, and psychological phenomenon. School nurses experienced that everyday pain is reflecting: 1) high expectations, 2) difficult relationships and traumatic experiences and 3) an unhealthy lifestyle. School nurses have ambivalent attitudes to medicalisation of pain.ConclusionDespite of a biopsychosocial understanding of pain, the school nurses maintained referral practice of medical examinations, with the results that many adolescents became shuttlecocks in the health system. Although the school nurses´ were sceptical of the tendency towards medicalization in society, it appears that they actually help maintain this tendency.

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“…Creating an atmosphere of trust and confidence was seen as a key to promoting health. [19,20] A caring school nurse was perceived as supportive of adolescents. [21] From the adolescents' point of view, confidentiality and trust were important factors when seeking help.…”

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“…The SHS is led and managed by the principal of the school and includes professions such as school nurses, school physicians, psychologists, guidance counselors and special education teachers. [1] In upper-secondary school, the school nurse invites each student aged [16][17][18][19] to a health dialogue during the first year with the aim of promoting and strengthening the health of the student. [2] Various health and lifestyle questionnaires have been developed and used during the health dialogue.…”

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Swedish school nurses’ perspectives on caring for and promoting the health of adolescents with mental health problems – A qualitative study the Health of Adolescents with Mental Health Problems – A Qualitative Study

Hilli

Wasshede

2017

CNS

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Background: Over the last few decades, there has been an increase in mental health problems among adolescents, manifested as physical symptoms, such as stomach pain, headaches, feelings of anxiety, worry, stress and sleeping problems. Surveys among school nurses' have revealed that mental health work now forms a key part of their role. Although an increasing number of adolescents are suffering from mental health problems in upper-secondary schools (16-19 years), there are few studies focusing on this matter. Therefore we wanted to explore the matter from the school nurses' point of view. The aim of this study was to explore Swedish school nurses' experiences of caring for and promoting the health of students suffering from mental health problems. Methods: The present study had a descriptive design and a qualitative approach. A purposeful sample of eight (n = 8) school nurses was interviewed. Their working experience varied between 4 and 29 years. The data were analysed using content analysis. The ethical principles stipulated by the Swedish Research Council were carefully followed throughout the study. Results: Three main themes with sub-themes were found: A caring relationship as the foundation for health promotion, organizing health-promoting work and interprofessional cooperation as a prerequisite for good caring. Conclusions: The findings strengthen the evidence of the importance of the health dialogue as a tool for the school nurses to identify students with mental health problems. Creating a caring relationship with the students is a prerequisite for caring and health promotion. Further education concerning mental health and evidence-based-practice should be arranged on regular basis. More research and cooperation between different stakeholders is needed.

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Connecting With Frequent Adolescent Visitors to the School Nurse Through the Use of Intentional Interviewing

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Teaching Empathy and Other Compassion-Based Communication Skills

Teaching Empathy and Other Compassion-Based Communication Skills

How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

Swedish school nurses’ perspectives on caring for and promoting the health of adolescents with mental health problems – A qualitative study the Health of Adolescents with Mental Health Problems – A Qualitative Study

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