ERIC Number: EJ1317720
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Publication Date: 2021-Dec
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A Qualitative Analysis of School Nurses' Experience Caring for Students with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Events
Terry, Debbie; Trott, Kristen
Journal of School Nursing, v37 n6 p441-448 Dec 2021
Psychogenic nonepileptic events (PNEE) are paroxysmal changes in behavior resembling epileptic seizures but with no electrographic correlate and are instead caused by psychological factors. In this qualitative study, semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 school nurses to identify how they perceive the experience of caring for a student with PNEE as well as supportive factors and barriers to optimal management of PNEE in schools. Several themes were identified: lack of diagnosis awareness by school staff leading to impressions that the student was "faking" the events, inadequate information provided by a health-care provider regarding the diagnosis in general and specifically about the individual student leading to a reliance on information from the student's family, feelings of doubt and insecurity about the diagnosis and management of the events, and reliance on the school nurse to develop a response plan and to manage the events which can be very time-consuming.
Descriptors: School Nurses, Role, Student Behavior, Barriers, Psychological Patterns, Mental Disorders, Seizures, Knowledge Level, Attitudes, Time, Access to Information, Student Needs
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Identifiers - Location: Ohio
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