Child protection or professional self-preservation by the baby nurses? Public health nurses and child protection in Ireland

Butler, Shane

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(95)00378-9

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“…Health visitors (HVs), also known as public health or child health nurses, provide a nearuniversal community-based service to preschool children and their parents in the United Kingdom (Hewitt et al 1989), Ireland (Butler 2007), the four Scandinavian nations (Ellefsen 2001;Larsson et al 1996;Hakulinen et al 1999;Skovgaard et al 2005), Australia (Briggs & Briggs 2006), New Zealand (Wilson 2001), the Netherlands, France and Italy (Kamerman & Kahn 1993). Home visiting is a key component of services in these countries, but the number of visits and their timing varies between the nations (Kamerman & Kahn 1993): clinic-based immunisation and child health surveillance services provided by nurses are more generally available.…”

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Health visitors’ assessments of parent–child relationships: A focus group study

Wilson

Barbour

Graham³

et al. 2008

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Background: Health visitors (HVs), also known as public health nurses, in the UK provide a universal community-based service to preschool children and their parents. Since they have ongoing supportive contact with almost all mothers and young children they have opportunities to identify problems in the parent-infant relationship: for example during developmental screening, home visits and immunisation clinics. Research into the role of screening for problems in the parent-child relationship in early childhood is sparse and little is known about how such problems are currently identified in the community Objective: To explore the approaches taken by health visitors (HVs) to identifying problems in the parentchild relationship Design: focus group study.Setting: Glasgow, Scotland Participants: 24 health visitors sampled purposively Results: Multiple sources of information were used by health visitors in assessing parent-child relationships.These include use of known risk factors, knowledge of local norms, direct observations of behaviour, reflection on the relationship between the parent and health visitor, as well as more intuitive reactions. In many cases understanding difficulties in parent-child relationships involved piecing together a jigsaw over a considerable time span. Continuity of relationships appeared to be crucial in this task. Home visits were described as the most informative setting in which to develop an understanding of the parent-child relationship. Participants reported a lack of formal training in the assessment of parent-child relationships and were keen to obtain more training.Conclusions: Health visitors use complex strategies to integrate information about parent-child relationships.These strategies are acquired in a variety of ways, but receive little emphasis during basic professional training.

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Health visitors’ assessments of parent–child relationships: A focus group study

Wilson

Barbour

Graham³

et al. 2008

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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“…This research method promotes a rich resource for the exploration of experiences, emotions, and feelings. Interactions that occur during focus groups among the participants can yield important data (Morgan 1988), can create the possibility for more spontaneous responses (Butler 1996), and can provide a setting where the participants openly discuss personal problems and provide possible solutions (Duggleby 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

Test anxiety: perceptions of American community college nursing students

Liu

2017

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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“…The primary reason why focus group interview was selected as a data collection method is that focus group studies, by their nature, allow the participants to interact with each other and encourage people with different mindsets to produce insights about the dynamics of the subject contrary to the relatively static nature of data collection through questionnaires (Morgan, 1988). Secondly, when compared to the other methods of data collection, focus groups inspire a higher degree of spontaneity when stating opinions (Butler, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%