SCHOOL NURSE´S ROLE IN CHILDREN HEALTH

PROTECTION

KADI LEPP, TATYANA ESSINA, VALENTINA HAZINSKAJA, NIINA PLISKO

EUSUHM 2011, MOSCOW

TALLINN, ESTONIA

GENERAL DATA

Official name of the state: Republic of Estonia

System of governing: Parliamentary republic

Capital city: Tallinn

Currency unit: EURO

Administrative division: Counties 15

Total area (km2): 45 227

Average life expectancy:

• men 67 years• women 78 years

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT INJURY DEATHS IN ESTONIA AND THE NETHERLANDS 3-YEAR MOVING AVERAGES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 0-19 YEARS

OBJECTIVE OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN 2009-2020

To reduce the mortality rate

of 0-19 year-old children and youth

due to fatal accidents, poisonings and

injuries by a half per 100,000 people

(i.e. from 30% to 15%).

THE ROLE OF SCHOOL NURSES

• Teaching first aid to students is additional task for school nurses from 1 Sept 2010

• A special study programme has been prepaired

• There is a special subject in our curriculum – personal education

• School nurses implement the programme in cooperation with teachers

AIM OF TEACHING FIRST AID

• Provision of basic knowledge and life saving techniques and providing first aid in case of an accident.

 

• Improvement of healthy and secure lifestyle and the prevention of accidents and injuries among school children.

FIRST AID STUDY PROGRAMME WHICH SCHOOL NURSES APPLY TO ALL GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS

STAGE /FORM/

TOPICS WITH QUESTIONS THAT NEED FURTHER DISCUSSION

I stage forms 1-3 45 minutes

1.Risk assessment and self-protection

2. Wounds, burns, falls, bites/stings...

3. Calling for help

EXPECTED RESULTS

Student knows the emergency number and can call for help

Demonstrates simpler first aid measures and possibilities to get help

II STAGE/ FORMS 4-6 90 MINUTES (2*45´)

1.Traumas, contusions, spreins, fractures, burns

2. Danger and emergency situations

3. Hands-on exercises

Student demonstrates simpler first aid measures and possibilities to get help

 

III STAGE/FORMS 7-9 90 MINUTES (2*45)

1. Danger and emergency situations

2. UnconsciousnessWhat to do if there is no breathing and pulse? Discuss calling for help and the sequence of actions.

Student knows how to act safely in an emergency situation and call for help in the case of allergy, asthma, diabetes, electric shock, epilepsy, choke, poisoning, fever and pain

 

EXAMPLES OF TWO SCHOOLS OF TALLINN:

SCHOOL NO 21 AND JUHKENTALI UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL)

• The target group included 11-12 year-old fifth form students.

• 192 students participated in the first aid training

• 105 students of them had studied first aid before in the third or fourth form

• Training was carried out in three stages

METHODS AND MATERIALS• The following methods were applied in

teaching: discussions, illustrative situations, conversations/debates, lectures, group works, role-plays, solving contingency tasks, hands-on activities.

• Teaching materials:

medical mannequins,

printed matters,

videos, slide shows.

THREE CYCLES OF TRAINING

I cycle

Traumas, provision of first aid, first aid equipment, self-defence techniques. 

II cycle

Fractures, sprains, burns etc and their most common causes.Theory was followed by a role-play.

III cycle

Solving contingency tasks to revise learned skills.

Reinforcement of the entire programme.

RESULTS EVALUATION

190 questionnaires were distributed, 185 students replied altogether.

The students who had completed the first aid training had

80% right answers

in the reference group

was 65%.

CONCLUSION

In two schools, 192 students were trained altogether in the school year 2010/2011 and the following was obtained:

• safe behaviour skills;

• knowledge of how to act

in case of an accident;

• basic first aid measures.

GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

• First aid trainings should be organised in a continual basis.

• Carrying the training out in a smaller group (up to 15 students) gives better results.

• It should be kept in mind that not all students are able to act in different situations providing first aid; however, all of them must know how to call for help.

• All accidents and traumas should be registered and analysed.

• It is necessary to continue national programmes/projects at schools (e.g. ’Protect yourself and help others’, ’Safe Community’, projects on the prevention of injuries in cities and counties etc.).

• Estonia is in urgent need of a national trauma register.

THANK YOU!

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