Nurses' perceived training needs in child protection issues

Support needs of children's nurses involved in child protection cases.

AIM This qualitative study explored the experiences of nurses working in a hospital paediatric department, who had direct involvement in child protection cases, to discover their support needs and suggest developments in training and support. BACKGROUND The study was inspired by an awareness of increasing anxiety amongst nurses involved in child protection cases. METHOD A phenomenological a...

Practice nurses: characteristics, workload and training needs.

AIM This study set out to identify the present and future training needs of practice nurses in South West Thames Regional Health Authority and to examine these needs within the nurses' current and changing workloads and social, educational and occupational profiles. METHOD A questionnaire was sent to 899 practice staff identified by family health services authority records whose salaries were...

Child protection training for paediatricians.

Training nurses to reduce child mortality.

After a shaky start, South Africa is finally making progress towards achieving the fourth of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 (UNDP 2003). However, whilst there has been a sustained decline in the country's under-five mortality rate (U5MR), this has only occurred since 2007 and the MDG target of 20 is unlike...

Perceived Training Needs of Maritime Doctors and General Practitioners

Introduction: Medical practitioners provide pre-employment examinations and periodic health examinations to seafarers, fishermen, offshore employees, and maritime students to ensure that they are fit for work. So far, very little is known about doctors’ perceptions of their professional training needs and expectations. The objective of this study was to gain insight on (a</...