Role of nursery nurses involved with children requiring medical care attending nursery schools

Abstract

 The purpose of this study was to clarify how nursery nurses involved with children requiring medical care attending nursery schools considered their role based on their experiences of providing medical care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 such nursery nurses and analyzed qualitatively and descriptively. As a result, the following five categories were extracted: [to help children in medical care get accepted in nursery schools], [to enable childcare professionals to understand the health status and medical care of such children], [to provide medical care in consideration of the flow of childcare], [to enable seamless medical care between home and nursery school], and [to enable children requiring medical care to engage in it independently]. These findings show that it is important for the primary doctor and guardian to cooperate, as is involvement with other children including those requiring medical care. Furthermore, they also indicate the necessity of nursery nurses’ autonomous involvement in medical care to help children requiring medical care become independent.