Background: Nursing arts required at school have not been fully studied for a long time, although they differ from those used by nurses at medical institutions and facilities. For this reason, the details of school nursing arts that are desirable to teach in Yogo teacher training education are not yet clear.
Objective: This study proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of the school nursing arts.
Methods:
1.Step 1: Development of a taxonomy of school nursing arts (draft) The framework (draft) of pediatric nursing arts was created on the basis of data including standards of the Japanese national licensure examination for nurses, and the validity was examined by five researchers involved in basic nursing education. Next, the literature on school nursing was compared with this framework (draft), and the taxonomy of school nursing arts (draft) was created, excluding medical practice. The necessity of the content was examined by five researchers involved in Yogo teaching education
.2.Step 2: Examination of the validity of a taxonomy of school nursing arts (draft) In February 2018, we sent questionnaires to Yogo teaching researchers across the country and asked a researcher from each school to respond. The contents of the survey included the recognition of the necessity of each school nursing art, the implementation of education at each school, and the attributes of the researchers. First, we examined whether there was a difference in recognition of the necessity of each school nursing arts according to the training background. Next, based on the consent rate of the Delphi method, we examined the necessity of the school nursing arts with a low consent rate regarding the necessity of school nursing arts through the information presented in extant literature or prevailing expert discussions, and designed the final version of the taxonomy.
Results: In the first step, 4 major items (I. Basic School Nursing Arts, II. School Nursing Arts to Keep Safety and Comfort of Children, III. School Nursing Arts of Daily Life Support, and IV. School Nursing Arts of Health Support), 19 middle items, 38 sub-items, and 211 details were generated. In the second step, responses were obtained from 47 Yogo teaching researchers (response rate 34.6%). As a result of examining the necessity of school nursing arts by training background (nursing and non-nursing), there was no significant difference. In each sub-item, 15 items received moderate consent, 12 items received low consent, and 1 item received a consent rate of less than 50%. Eventually, 2 items were excluded and 8 were added, along with the addition of 1 middle item, 1 sub-item, and 6 details, thereby bringing the total items generated to, 4 major items, 20 middle items, 39 sub-items, and 215 details.
Conclusion: In this study, we extracted items related to school nursing arts based on extant studies and lit-erature on school nursing, and examined the necessity based on the opinions of Yogo teaching researchers. This taxonomy of school nursing arts is one of the evidence data for improving Yogo teacher training education and Yogo teacher training.
