1) Q: What is your intake/opinion on child abuse?
A: "Absolutely horrible, I don't/won't even spank my child!"
2) Q: What are some signs, for you as someone who works in a school, that a child/teenager is being abused?
A: "If they are unusually shy/withdrawn socially, questionable bruises."
3) Q: What are some ways, as a nurse, you could help a child/teenager who is or had been abused?
A: "Get them set up with a counselor or the right person who get help them get through it."
4) Q: From experience or knowledge, in your opinion, what reasons would a person have to abuse a child/teen?
A: "If that person is abusive, in most cases, the very littlest of things could set them off, at the right time."
5) Q: From experience or knowledge, what are some things a child might do to get abused?
A: "Again, they don't have to do anything, that person could just be very stressed out or angry about something else and that child could be there at the right time, not answering or doing something to displease them. "It's never the child's fault!"
6) Q: As someone working at a schools health center, have you ever seen child/teenager that's been abused?
A: "Not personally, but I know that the head nurse has dealt with it."
7) Q: As somebody working in a school health center, would you report, have you ever needed to report an abused child?
A: "I haven't, but if I ever had any questions, I'd send them to the head nurse."
8) Q: What are some ways that you think could help prevent child abuse?
A: "Knowing about abuse, the parents taking parenting and stress/anger classes before having children. Unfortunately, the child is there for the parent to take their anger or whatever out on. Children also need to know what is not okay and know the proper people to talk to, and talk to them."
After interviewing the school nurse I was able to get somebodys, in person, that most kids in our school know, point of view on what child abuse and what they think about it. Pretty much the same as everyone elses. From interviewing the school nurse, I was able to get "simple terms" of what somebody might think. It's also good to know, I'm sure for everybody, that you have people in your own school that you know you can talk to about it and that will get you help. I think interviewing the school nurse was way more helpful then some random you-tube video that I looked up.
