Experiences of school health nurses regarding the provision of the school health service delivery in the Tshwane district

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Experiences of school health nurses regarding the provision of the school health service delivery in the Tshwane district
 
Creator Dibakwane, Selebetswe T. Peu, Mmapheko D.
 
Subject primary health nurses experiences; school health nurses; school health service delivery
Description Background: Irrespective of the provision of an integrated school health policy, the school health nurses continue to experience multiple challenges regarding the provisioning of school health service delivery.Aim: The aim of this paper was to explore and describe the experiences of school health nurses regarding school health service delivery in the Tshwane district.Setting: Schools in the Tshwane district in Pretoria were used in the study.Methods: A qualitative and descriptive phenomenological design was used to conduct the study. Purposive sampling techniques were used to select a sample from the population of school health nurses employed in the Tshwane district and conduct the enquiry because of their knowledge and experience of school health services. The researchers collected data by means of unstructured, one-on-one in-depth interviews. The Tesch data analysis method was used by the researcher and co-coder. The researcher identified categories, subcategories and themes and these were reduced into grouping topics that were related to one another.Results: Positive and negative experiences of school health nurses emerged. It was evident from the findings of the study that the factors affecting the quality of the integrated school health programme (ISHP) provided were interrelated. Most of these factors negatively affected service delivery.Conclusion: It was recommended that the partnership between the National Department of Health and National Department of Basic Education as the main role players should be sustained at all times to ensure the successful implementation of the ISHP.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor University of Pretoria
Date 2018-11-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative research
Format text/html application/epub+zip application/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v10i1.1807
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 10, No 1 (2018); 8 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa 1996-2016 female nurses
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Prof Mmapheko Doriccah Peu, Mrs Selebetswe Theodora Dibakwane https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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