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Involving Parents Through Health Visiting Services

Involving Parents Through Health Visiting Services. How the health visitor role is changing: The review of nursing in the community. Four main reasons for change: Patient and carer needs Scotland’s ageing population profile and associated health care needs Health and social policy

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Involving Parents Through Health Visiting Services

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  1. Involving Parents Through Health Visiting Services How the health visitor role is changing: The review of nursing in the community.

  2. Four main reasons for change: • Patient and carer needs • Scotland’s ageing population profile and associated health care needs • Health and social policy • Nursing, health and social care workforce issues.

  3. The review recommends that nursing services : • Are designed around the needs of individuals and communities • Utilise the true value of nurses and that the contribution nursing can make is realised • Build on the strengths of the present as well as the needs of the future • Support nurses to move between teams and offer attractive career choices

  4. The review recommends • the disciplines of district nursing, health visiting and school nursing be absorbed into a new, single ‘community health nursing’ discipline. • a strong partnership approach with individuals, families, carers and communities • Multi agency working • Focus on providing services that meet local needs and complement and reflect national priorities

  5. The review model intends to provide: • A skilled generalist role for community nursing, dealing as the first point of contact for individuals and referring on to specialists when a greater degree of expertise is required. • A health based model in which the community nurse will take a lead role in preventing illness and promoting health as well as caring for those who are ill. • A role founded on the principle of caring for families and communities rather than just the individuals within them. • Nursing services which meet the expectations of individual, carers, families and communites

  6. Tensions within the model: • Although public health role is identified as important, the reason for the changes is an increasingly elderly population and reduction in workforce • Frontline staff remain to be convinced • Requires meaningful engagement with social care services and voluntary agencies • Nursing capacity to deliver the model • Generic nature of the model

  7. How will this affect the service to parents? • No immediate changes. • May result in more ‘skill-mix’ involvement with parents. • Less access to health visitors • CHN’s will be generalists and have less specialised knowledge. • Referral for problems to advanced practitioner. • More multi-agency involvement.

  8. References:- Jarvis, A. (2007)‘Accessible and integrated care: Scotland’s community nursing review. British Journal of Community Nursing Vol 12, No 4. Pollock, L. (2007) ‘Responses to ‘Visible,accessible and integrated care’ the practitioners voice.’ QNIS. Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD)(2005) Delivering for Health. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh. Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD)(2006) Visible, accessible and integrated care. Report of the review of nursing in the community in Scotland. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

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