Support for Teachers - The Role of the Nurse in Teaching
8.2.14 Support for Teachers - The Role of the Nurse in Teaching
Education and health respondents were asked questions about the role of the public health nurses in instruction. Education respondents were asked if that role had been agreed to with their health counterparts. Teachers were asked if they had public health personnel make use of classroom presentations. As well, public health nurses were asked if they made presentations to students.
Based on these responses, it would appear that the educators perceive they have agreed upon a role for the nurse in teaching students and that the nurses help most of the teachers with their classes. However, most teachers do not have nurses teach often in their classes.
Figure 153
| PHN Teaching Role | Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOE - 21s | 9.1 |
18.2 |
27.3 |
0.0 |
9.1 |
27.3 |
9.1 |
0.0 |
| SD - 22q | 2.5 |
66.7 |
7.3 |
7.2 |
13.5 |
n/a |
2.8 |
0.0 |
| SP - 19l | 2.9 |
64.4 |
13.3 |
1.9 |
16.4 |
n/a |
1.1 |
0.0 |
| PHN-19 | 0.6 |
70.9 |
17.6 |
4.0 |
5.1 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
0.0 |
Teachers reported that the nurses made presentations to classes in these proportions. Most teachers (74.5%) reported that nurses give presentations in their classes less than 10% of the time. About 2% of teachers reported that nurses teach in their classes about half of the time. About 1% said that nurses do so about three-quarters of the time.
Figure 154
| PHN % presenta- tions |
0 |
1-10 |
11-20 |
21-30 |
31-40 |
41-50 |
51-60 |
61-70 |
71-80 |
81-90 |
91- |
T-IV-1e |
31.0 | 43.5 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 3.1 |