Health Management and Services of School-Nurse in Special Schools

특수학교의 보건관리

  • Published : 1991.09.01

Abstract

School nurses, in service of 102 special schools in Korea, were urveyed by mail questionnaires from February to March, 1991 and 77 of hem responded. Collected data were analyzed to establish the direction of health management in special school and to provide basic reference data for improving the quality of the management of school-nurses' services. The major findings are as follows: Out of special schools surveyed, 67.5% is private school and 83.2% is located in city. The average number of classes, students, and educational personnels per special school is 17.2, 194, and 28 respectively. The average age of school-nurses surveyed is 32.7. The proportion of graduates from the junior college and upward was 97.4%, the proportion of the married was 71.4%. Out of respondents, 71.4% has religion : 79.2% has past career in the fields of clinics or public health: 62.3% accompanishes independent services: 77.9% belongs to primary school. About 69% of nursing room in special schools surveyed is located at the first floor. Out of special school surveyed, 90.9% has no organization for school health programms: Only 18.2% entrusted everyone of school doctor, school dentist, and school pharmacists with school health. 46.8% of respondents didn't know about the annual budget for school health programmes. The average annual expenditure for school health programme per special school was 317,000F26. won and the purchase cost for medical supplies accounted for the larger part of them. The monthly average number of students utilizing school nursing room was 71 per school, annual utilization times of school nursing room was 4.4 per student and utilization due to injury was prevalent by 26.6% and there is some differences in using the school nursing room according to disabled area. Rate of referral to medical facilities was 1.4%. The leading reason of referral to medical facilities was high fever among those who have visual handicaps, fracture among those who have emotional disturbance, injury by trauma among others. Nine hundred fifty six students of students in special school surveyed have sufferd from epilepsy and prevalence rate of epilepsy was 6.4%. Only 22.6% of respondents replied that they had physical examination more than 2 times per year. Out of respnodents, 98.7% answered that they had health education and 67.1% of them ansered that they educated in a classroom, 98.7% of respondents emphasized need of sex education. Respondents put the most emphasis on the personal hygiene when they performed health education and they used broadcasting education in the area of visual handicaps, OHP or VTR in hearing handicaps, home correspondence or OHP VTR in other area importantly. About 47% of repondents answered that health education was the most difficult and they emphasized that definite guide on health management was requested. Respondents had self-confidence and high perfomance rate in most of school-nurses' services completely, but so they was not in area of evaluation of school health programmes, an examination of physical strength, evaluation of health education, management of school purification area, suture of wounds. In consideration of above findings, we may conclude that special education for school-nurse in special schools as well as improvement of definite guiding principles are requested to establish direction for health management in special schools and to improve the degree of quality for school-nurses' sevices in special schools.

특수학교 보건관리의 방향 설정과 특수학교 양호교사 업무 수행에 있어 질적 향상을 위한 기초 자료를 제시하고자 전국의 102개 특수학교 양호교사를 대상으로 1991년 2월 1일부터 1991년 3월 31일까지 우편 설문 조사를 실시하여 회수된 77개 학교를 대상으로 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 특수학교의 67.5%가 사립이고, 83.2%가 시 이상 지역에 위치해 있으며, 정신지체학교가 48.1%로 가장 많았다. 특수학교의 평균 학급수는 17.2학급, 평균학생수는 194명, 평균교직원 수는 28명이었다. 양호교사의 평균 연령은 32.7세였고, 97.4%가 전문대학 이상 졸업자였으며, 71.4%가 기혼자였고, 79.2%가 임상이나 보건과 관련된 분야의 과거경력이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 62.3%의 양호교사가 단독 업무를 보고있었으며, 77.9%가 초등에 소속되어 있었다. 대상 특수학교 양호실은 68.9%가 l층에 위치해 있었고, 학교보건 조직은 90.9%가 구성되어 있지 않았으며, 학교보건 인력으로 교의, 치과의, 학교 약사 모두를 위촉하고 있는 곳은 18.2%에 불과했다. 학교보건에 관한 연간 예산은 양호교사의 46.8%가 모르고 있었으며, 학교당 평균 년간지출액은 317,000원으로 그 중 의약품 구입비가 제일 많았다. 학교당 월 평균양호실 이용자수는 71명이었고, 학생 1인당 연간 양호실 이용은 4.4회였으며, 외상으로 인한 이용이 26.6%로 가장 많았다. 양호실 이용자중 1.4%가 의료기관에 의뢰되었는데, 시각장애학교는 고열, 정서장애학교는 골절, 다른 영역학교는 외상으로 가장 많이 의뢰하였다. 특수학교 아동 중 간질 학생수는 956명으로 조사 대상학교 학생수의6.4%를 차지하고 있었다. 신체검사를 2회 이상 실시하고 있는 학교는 22.6% 밖에 되지 않았으며, 98.7%가 보건교육을 실시하고 있고, 성교육은 98.7%가 필요하다고 강조하였다. 보건교육은 개인 위생에 가장 비중을 두고 있었으며, 시각장애 학교는 방송교육, 청각장애 학교는 OHP나 VTR, 다른 영역의 학교는 가정통신문이나 OHP VTR을 가장 많이 사용하는 교육매체였다. 대상 양호교사의 46.8%가 학교보건관리중 보건교육이 가장 어렵다고 하였으며, 중점개선내용으로 49.4%가 특수학교 보건관리에 대한 구체적인 업무 지침이 필요하다고 강조하였다. 사업계획 및 평가, 양호실 관리, 보건교육, 환경관리, 건강관리 등의 양호교사 업무 수행은 비교적 높은 수행율과 자신감을 나타냈으나, 그 중 학교보건 사업의 평가, 체력검사, 보건교육 후 평가, 학교정화구역 관리, 상처 봉합에 대한 수행율과 자신감이 비교적 낮았다. 따라서 특수학교 보건관리의 방향설정과 양호업무의 질적수준 향상을 위하여 학교보건사업에 대한 구체적인 업무지침의 개선과 특수학교 양호교사에 대한 별도교육이 필요한 것으로 생각된다.

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