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Newly qualified health visitor: COVID-19 – a public health crisis
(2020-04)
Bethany Boddy explores the fast-changing public health emergency of COVID-19 and the health visitor response.
Newly qualified health visitor: Looking to the future for children and families
(2020-06)
Bethany Boddy reflects on her time as a newly qualified health visitor and asks what needs to be done to support the profession moving forwards
Newly qualified health visitor: Routine enquiry and disclosure of domestic abuse
(2020-01)
Bethany Boddy explores the evidence in relation to domestic abuse prevalence, asking routine enquiry question and responding to a disclosure
Newly qualified health visitor: Working with families to help reduce obesity
(2020-09)
With the government publishing a policy paper on obesity in July 2020, Bethany Boddy looks at the health visitor role in early identification, health promotion and intervention for families
Newly qualified health visitor: Safeguarding the ‘unseen’ child
(2020-02)
Bethany Boddy considers the need for holistic assessment of appointments where children were not present, and the importance of considering that a child was not brought, rather than did not attend
Newly qualified health visitor: Working with families to support breastfeeding
(2020-11)
Bethany Boddy explores the barriers to breastfeeding in the UK and how practitioners can promote breastfeeding within health visitor practice
Paediatric contacts with the UK out-of-hours primary care service and contact outcomes: a regional service evaluation
(2020-07)
Background
Demand on hospital emergency departments for paediatric problems is increasing. However, the volume and nature of paediatric health demands placed on other parts of the urgent care system have not been explored. ...
Wellbeing Wednesdays: nurse-led clinic for improving physical health care in a general adolescent inpatient unit
(2020-02)
Background: Young people with mental illness are at high risk of physical health complications. Physical healthcare on a general adolescent inpatient unit is complex.
Aim: To establish a wellbeing clinic to improve ...
Newly qualified health visitor: The evidence to support home visiting
(2020-05)
COVID-19 has changed the way health visiting is being delivered across the country. With the need for social distancing, new practices have been put in place to restrict non-essential visiting and keep families and ...
Multidisciplinary Teamwork and the Insanity Defence: A Case of Infanticide in Iraq
(2020-12)
Capital punishment still exists in many countries and mainly in the Middle East
where Islam is the main formal religion for most states.
Here, the author describes the case of a young woman from Iraq who was arrested
by ...