Abstract
The present study investigated school nurses’ support team coordination activities and how those coordination activities influenced the nurses’ job satisfaction. In Study I, a scale was developed to measure school nurses’ job satisfaction. The scale consisted of 7 factors : “success of emotional support activities,” “creating awareness of the existence of school nurses,” “success with health education,” “creating good relationships with students,” “displaying expertise as a school nurse,” “creating good relationships with colleagues,” and “creating good relationships with parents.” The results of Study 2 showed that engagement in coordination activities had a positive influence on school nurses’ job satisfaction. Other results indicated that the school nurses played an important role in coordination activities (“information gathering and assessment of students’ health”), and that the school nurses’ actions in other coordination activities were on the same level as those of their coworkers, aside from student guidance. Ways to promote support team coordination activities of school nurses were discussed.
