Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation-Southwest, 851 University Boulevard, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
New Mexico Department of Health, Office of School and Adolescent Health, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
J Sch Nurs. 2024 Oct;40(5):536-546. doi: 10.1177/10598405221120437. Epub 2022 Aug 17.
School nurses are critical components of school-based interdisciplinary teams supporting student behavioral health. The purpose of the present study is to understand the extent to which school nurses in New Mexico across grade levels manage emergencies related to behavioral health, violence, and trauma. The study also seeks to identify which topics the school nurses received continuing education (CE) for, and which topics they consider to be important to their practice. Analyses of 2019 statewide survey data show a considerable number of school nurses in New Mexico provide management for behavioral health, violence, and trauma-related emergencies, and nurses in secondary schools are significantly more likely than nurses in primary schools to report managing these emergencies and to have received CE on behavioral health topics. Our findings reaffirm the essential role of school nurses in addressing emergent student health issues and underscore the need for practice- and competency-based behavioral health CE opportunities.
学校护士是支持学生行为健康的学校跨学科团队的重要组成部分。本研究旨在了解新墨西哥州各级学校护士在管理与行为健康、暴力和创伤相关的紧急情况方面的程度。该研究还试图确定学校护士接受了哪些继续教育（CE）课程，以及他们认为哪些主题对他们的实践很重要。对 2019 年全州调查数据的分析表明，新墨西哥州相当多的学校护士提供行为健康、暴力和与创伤相关的紧急情况管理，中学护士比小学护士更有可能报告管理这些紧急情况，并接受过行为健康主题的 CE。我们的研究结果再次肯定了学校护士在解决突发学生健康问题方面的重要作用，并强调了提供基于实践和能力的行为健康 CE 机会的必要性。
