Abstract
The duties of school nurses considered to be important for themselves was investigated in this study. A scale was prepared regarding duty priority in a preliminary investigation and then a survey was conducted among 346 school nurses. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship of duty priority with type of school, years of experience, number of students and quantity of students’ problems. As a result, four factors were extracted: (1) leadership in health promotion; (2) caring for students; (3) the relationship with colleagues; (4) making an open atmosphere at the nurse’s office. Elementary and junior high school nurses and school nurses with thirty or more years of experience considered ‘leadership in health promotion’ as important. In addition, a relationship between number of students and low priority was suggested. School nurses with less than ten years of experience considered ‘caring for students’ and ‘making open atmosphere at the nurse’s office’ as important. On the other hand, ‘the relationship with colleagues’ showed no significant differences with type of school, years of experience, number of students and quantity of students’ problems.
