Health Visiting : Preparation for Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luker, Karen A.

Contributor:

McHugh, Gretl A.

Bryar, Rosamund M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health nursing--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

4th ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Prevention, public health, and health visiting

Health visiting: preparation for practice

References

Chapter 1 Managing Knowledge in Health Visiting

Defining health visiting practice

What do health visitors do - and where do they do it?

Evidence-based practice

The current landscape of EBP

Managing knowledge and evidence in practice

Case study 1.1:Introducing new technology

Case study 1.2:Creating guidelines in primary care

Case study 1.3:Protocol-based decision making in nursing

Case study 1.4:Knowledge management in primary care

Communities of practice

Reflective practice

Clients: what do they know and how do they know it?

Social networking and the media

The debate

Summary

Activities

Chapter 2 Health Visiting: Context and Public Health Practice

Public health

Defining 'public'

Defining 'health'

Defining 'public health'

Human rights and public health

The principles of health visiting

The search for health needs

The stimulation of an awareness of health needs

The influence on policies affecting health

The facilitation of health enhancing activities

Health inequalities

Chapter 3 The Community Dimension

Public health and communities

Defining 'community'

Impact of communities on health

The role of health visitors in working with communities

Gaining an understanding of the health of your local community

Windshield survey

Public health walk

Health needs assessment

Building community capacity

Using health promotion models to support community working

Chapter 4 Approaches to Supporting Families.

Introduction

Models of intervention in family life

Three models relevant to health visiting practice in families with young children

Application of the models in practice

Policies

Evidence for interventions to support families

Characteristics of services and programmes to support families with young children

Early home visiting programmes

First Parent Health Visiting Programme

Community Mothers Programme (CMP)

Current home visiting programmes

Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) Programme

Flying Start - Wales

The Triple-P (Positive Parenting Programme)

Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting (MECSH)

Sure Start programmes

Working with families

Empirical evidence on relationship development

Challenges

Public health agenda

Level of evidence

Adhering to the programme criteria

High-needs families

Practice specialisation

Concerns about child safety

Adequate resources

Note

Chapter 5 Safeguarding Children: Debates and Dilemmas for Health Visitors

The key concepts

Defining 'child'

Defining 'childhood'

Defining 'safeguarding'

Defining 'child abuse'

Defining 'significant harm'

Incidence and prevalence of child abuse

Assessment of vulnerable children

Assessment of children in need and their families

Common Assessment Framework (CAF)

Graded Care Profile (GCP)

Working together

Confidentiality and information sharing

Supervision

Chapter 6 Working with Diverse Communities

Culture and migration

Cultural sensitivity and competence

Some useful tips for developing cultural competence

Institutional discrimination and organisational cultural competence

Understanding different cultural practices

Pregnancy.

Birth customs

Confinement following birth

Breastfeeding

Diet, weaning, and feeding practices

Maternal mental health

Safeguarding, domestic violence, and abuse

Communication

Other communities

Case studies

Case study 6.1:Breastfeeding support project for Somali mothers in Harrow

Case study 6.2:New ways of delivering health visiting services for Orthodox Jewish community in Hackney

Chapter 7 Evaluating Practice

Sources of evidence for practice

Evaluation - the problem of definition

Conceptualising evaluation

Example: tackling childhood obesity

Evaluation and evaluative research

Evaluation of health care

Structure, process, and outcome evaluation

Structure evaluation

Process evaluation

Outcome evaluation

The care planning process

Actual and potential problems

Problem solving

Additional issues in evaluating the practice of health visiting

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Luker, Karen A. Health Visiting

ISBN:

9781119084556

OCLC:

954285247