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Newly qualified health visitor: Parents' and professionals' views of health visiting practice
(2020-03)
Bethany Boddy discusses the importance of user feedback to health visiting practice, encouraging clients to let us know what they think about the service, including the positive aspects and areas for improvement
Newly qualified health visitor: Resilience in practice
(2019-09)
As a new cohort of health visitors qualify, Bethany Boddy reflects on the importance of resilience and the way individuals, teams and organisations can support staff as they develop their skills as practitioners through ...
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: Mandated contacts and achieving the best start in life
(2019-08)
There has been much in the news recently about how to achieve the best start for children in the UK. Bethany Boddy reflects on the importance of the health visitor contacts for families in the UK and the challenges faced ...
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
Newly qualified health visitor: Discussing vaccinations with families through health visiting contacts
(2019-10)
Bethany Boddy considers the important role health visitors have in discussing vaccinations with families through mandated contacts and sharing evidence-based research to promote vaccination uptake.