School Health Nursing Based on Intersectoral Collaboration: A Proposal for Developing a Cost-Effective Model

Abstract

Purpose: Although the importance of school healthservices is stated in laws and regulations, theabsence of regular, sustainable school healthservices has made it necessary to devise a newmodel for Turkey. With this project, creating amodel to promote school health nursing students inall schools in Turkey it is intended to providecontinuous school health services.Materials and Methods: All the students (6–11years) were included in the scope of this project (n= 1433). This project was conducted in anelementary school with a dense student populationin an area with internal and external migration andlow socioeconomic level. The duration of thisproject was from September 2016 to May 2019.Results: With the school health nursing modelbased on intersectoral cooperation, the necessarynursing care was provided in the health office, inaddition to students developing positive healthbehavior and health self-control (p < 0.001), beingprovided the opportunity to diagnose importanthealth issues early, and gaining the awareness ofbeing responsible for their health.Conclusions: The use of this model of schoolhealth nursing services based on intersectoralcooperation in the provision of health services inschools will provide positive health outcomes. Inaddition, it is sustainable to use because it is costeffective.