Table 1.

Demographic characteristics among school nurses in Reykjavik, Iceland and Saint Paul, Minnesota (N=32)

	Reykjavik (N=17)		St Paul (N=15)
	N	%	N	%
Gender
Female	17	100	14	93.4
Male	0	0	1	6.6
Educational level
Bachelors in nursing	16	94.1	7	46.7
Masters in nursing	1	5.9	8	53.0
Serve more than one school	5	26.3	4	27.0
Contact with parents of children with asthma
1-2 times per school year	13	68.4	5	33.3
> 3 times per school year	1	5.25	10	66.7
Contact with health care providers of children with asthma
1-2 times per school year	6	31.6	7	46.6
> 3 times per school year	1	5.3	8	53.3
	Mean		Mean
School nurse age, in years	38.2		53.7
Years employed at school	4.3		7.7
Mean number of students served by school nurses	1 nurse to 559 students		1 nurse to 883 students