Exploring School Nurse Interventions and Health and Education Outcomes: An Integrative Review

Abstract

School nurses intervene with students, parents, and school staff to advance the health and academic success of students. We conducted an integrative literature review of published research to describe the types of school nurse interventions and health and education outcome measures and to examine how school nurse interventions were linked to student outcomes. Sixty-five studies met the inclusion criteria. We used the National Association of School Nurses' Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice to categorize school nurse interventions and health and education outcome measures. The majority of interventions were categorized under the care coordination principle, most commonly, motivational interviewing and counseling. In 17 studies, school nurse interventions were linked to improved student outcomes. Most studies (80%) were descriptive. To advance school nursing science, researchers can build on this foundation with more rigorous research methods to evaluate the impact of school nurse interventions and activities on student health and education outcomes.

School health assessment tools: a systematic review of measurement in primary schools

“…As briefly reviewed here, there have been various but similar models suggesting the components or factors of school health, thus, the question is if there are instruments to measure these factors. Measuring the factors of school health is important; it helps the health specials, school nurses, school principals, teachers, parents, politicians, and other stakeholders to realize what they need to improve in order to effectively promote student health, which in turn leads to better educational outcomes ( Best, Oppewal & Travers, 2018 ; Rahman et al, 2018 ) promotes public health ( Kolbe, 2019 ; Birch & Auld, 2019 ), improves mental health ( Deborah, 2019 ; Redfern et al, 2019 ; Holt, 2020 ), increases health equity ( Peng et al, 2019 ; Gonzĺez, Etow & De La Vega, 2019 ), promotes general health ( Boroumandfar et al, 2015 ; Krok-Schoen et al, 2018 ; Mishra et al, 2018 ), prevents diseases ( Akihiro et al, 2017 ; Park et al, 2017 ; Jihene et al, 2015 ), promotes physical activities ( Kelly et al, 2019 ; Dai, 2019 ), healthier nutritional choices ( Anita, 2019 ; Shrestha et al, 2019 ), and increases student’s safety ( Voon & Ariff, 2019 ; Chalupka & Anderko, 2019 ; Mannathoko, 2019 ), among many other benefits.…”

A School Nurse Competency Framework for Continuing Education

“…The school nurses play an essential role in coping with a population with a variety of health issues in a school setting [ 1 ]. Some surveys identified an average school nurse-to-student ratio as high as 1:1086 in the United States [ 2 ], and 1:1000 in the Republic of Korea, respectively [ 3 ]. However, the performance of health-related work in school nursing depends largely on the individual competencies of school nurses, precipitating a demand for a systematic education approach to strengthen their competency.…”

Peer Review #1 of "School health assessment tools: a systematic review of measurement in primary schools (v0.1)"

“…Manuscript to be reviewed school principals, teachers, parents, politicians, and other stakeholders to realize what they need to improve in order to effectively promote student health, which in turn leads to better educational outcomes (Best, Oppewal & Travers, 2018;Rahman et al, 2018) promotes public health (Kolbe, 2019;Birch & Auld, 2019), improves mental health (Deborah, 2019;Redfern et al, 2019;Holt, 2019), increases health equity (Peng et al, 2019;Gonzalez, Etow & De La Vega, 2019), promotes general health (Boroumandfar et al, 2015;Krok-Schoen et al, 2018;Mishra et al, 2018), prevents diseases (Akihiro et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;Jihene, 2015), promotes physical activities (Kelly et al, 2019;Dai, 2019), healthier nutritional choices (Anita, 2019;Shrestha, 2019), and increases student's safety (Voon & Ariff, 2019;Chalupka & Anderko, 2019;Mannathoko, 2019), among many other benefits.…”