Nurses’, midwives’ and health visitors’ involvement in cross‐boundary working within child health services

Abstract

Considerable cross-boundary working was reported but transdisciplinary working is not yet well established across all areas of child health provision.

Interprofessional cooperation by midwives in the field of out-of-hospital obstetrical care: an integrative review / Interprofessionelle Kooperation von Hebammen im Handlungsfeld der ambulanten geburtshilflichen Versorgung: ein integratives Review

“…Among the studies reviewed, only a few took representatives from the social system into consideration; most of them focussed on the cooperation of midwives with other health care professionals. On the one hand, the current results indicate a field of research, which has been only rarely focussed on; on the other hand, they reveal that cooperation between midwives and social services has international relevance in health care (Clancy et al, 2013;Miers & Pollard, 2009;While et al, 2006). The studies show a consensus achieved on the benefits of interprofessional cooperation for those using the care system.…”

“…In six other studies, the primary interest lies in interprofessional cooperation between midwives and physicians (Ratti et al, 2014;Schölmerich et al, 2014;Shaw, 2013;Skinner & Foureur, 2010;Smith et al, 2009;Vedam et al, 2012). Three studies examine the introduction of child or family health promotion programmes involving various groups of professions (Edvardsson et al, 2011;Edvardsson et al, 2012;Schmied et al, 2015), while four studies focus on the cooperation between professions in the health and social service sectors (Ayerle et al, 2014;Clancy, Gressnes, & Svensson, 2013;Miers & Pollard, 2009;While, Murgatroyd, Ullman, & Forbes, 2006). The collaboration between professional groups supporting women with complex physical and social needs is the subject of further studies (Fontein-Kuipers et al, 2014;Nagel-Brotzler et al, 2005), as is the cooperation between the various health professions involved in maternity care (Munro, Kornelsen, & Grzybowski, 2013;Murray-Davis et al, 2011;Peterson, Medves, Davies, & Graham, 2007;Pollard, 2011).…”

Innovative supply risk management : the development of a comprehensive supply risk management system

“…The world café can be regarded as a special form of focus group research (Brennan and Ritch, 2010;While et al, 2006). In the next section we will next briefly discuss the world café before describing the adaptations we are suggesting.…”

“…We suggest to address the clockspeed issue by combining two inclusive research methods, consortium benchmarking (Schiele and Krummaker, 2011) and the world café method (Brown and Isaacs, 2005), a special form of focus group research (Brennan and Ritch, 2010;While et al, 2006). We refer to this combination as "speed consortium benchmarking".…”

Maternity care and Every Child Matters

“…The programme is aimed at children aged 0-5 years of age, their families and the communities in which they live (Gustafsson and Driver 2006). The government funding behind the programmes was quite generous -£1.4 billion over five years nationally (Houston 2003 While et al (2006) in their article discussing cross-boundary working within child health services cite the example of the sick neonate being cared for in a neonatal unit as being a baby who is very dependent on good team working both in the high dependency setting and on discharge into the community. The neonatal nurse practitioners are ideally placed to liaise with other professionals to ensure that the care provided is seamless.…”