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Exploring School Nurse Interventions and Health and Education Outcomes: An Integrative Review
Nakia C Best1,2, Sonda Oppewal1, Debbie Travers1
11 School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Summary
School nurses utilize care coordination, including motivational interviewing, to support student health and academic success. Further research is needed to fully understand the impact of these nursing interventions on student outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Science
- Public Health
- Educational Psychology
Background:
- School nurses play a crucial role in student well-being and academic achievement.
- Existing literature highlights various school nurse interventions but lacks a comprehensive synthesis of their impact on student outcomes.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review and categorize school nurse interventions and outcome measures.
- To examine the relationship between school nurse interventions and student health and academic outcomes.
Main Methods:
- An integrative literature review of 65 studies was conducted.
- The National Association of School Nurses' Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice was used for categorization.
- Interventions and outcome measures were analyzed for links to student success.
Main Results:
- Care coordination, particularly motivational interviewing and counseling, was the most common intervention type.
- Seventeen studies demonstrated a link between school nurse interventions and improved student outcomes.
- The majority of reviewed studies (80%) were descriptive in nature.
Conclusions:
- School nurse interventions, especially care coordination, show promise in improving student health and academic success.
- Further rigorous research is essential to establish causality and quantify the impact of school nursing practices.
- Building on descriptive findings, future studies should employ robust methodologies to advance school nursing science.
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