The School Clinic of Tanza National Trade School as a Source of Health Care

Abstract

The school clinic is the main facility that can provide basic health care to teachers, staffs and students. In the context of the Philippines, Filipino students use their school clinic to help them in a way of offering first aid whenever they have illness and injuries. Though the school clinic only offers “Katinko” as first aid and before healing the patient, the nurse and the teacher tend to get angry first. To solve this problem, asking the perspective of the students might get awareness to the school clinic’s stuff and can be the way to know the efficacy of the school clinic as a source of health care. As a result, this quantitative study aims to describe the effectiveness of the school clinic of Tanza National Trade School. One section of grade nine students, consists of 76 students, of Tanza National Trade School was selected due to their availability. Their answers in the interview were used to know how they describe their school clinic as a source of health care. The students were interviewed for an approximate time of 1 to 2 minutes each. Follow-up questions were asked during the interview in order for the researchers to deeply understand every important detail that the respondent may speak. The findings of the study revealed that the school clinic of Tanza National Trade School provides a good quality of healthcare for the students. It was reflected through thematic analysis that the student-participants deem the school clinic of the school as complete and ready for emergency use. As a result, providing a good service and proper dealing can fill up the satisfaction of every student that will be brought into the school clinic. The results of the study hence recommend that the nurses of Tanza National Trade School should be good in dealing with their patients.