Visit Attendance Patterns in Nurse-Family Partnership Community Sites

Evidence Summary for the Nurse Family Partnership

 KEY FINDINGS: Pattern of sizable, sustained effects on important child and maternal outcomes in four of the five studies. Effects replicated across two or more studies include: (i) reductions in child abuse/neglect and injuries (20-50%); (ii) reduction in mothers’ subsequent births (10-20%) during their late teens and early twenties; and (iii) improvement in cognitive/educational outcomes for...

Community intervention to prevent child maltreatment in England: evaluating the contribution of the Family Nurse Partnership.

BACKGROUND The Government in England has recognized the importance of early intervention to promote positive child development and prevent maltreatment. In doing so, efforts have been made to increase the implementation of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) to target a greater number of families who require intensive secondary intervention. METHODS This paper presents an argument that the FNP...

Providing the family-nurse partnership programme through interpreters in England.

This study looks at the delivery of the Family-Nurse Partnership (FNP) in England with interpreters. This home-visiting programme for vulnerable, young first-time mothers is known in the USA as the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). FNP is manualised with a number of fidelity targets and stretch objectives. This study covers the first two phases, pregnancy and infancy (up to 12 months). The progra...

Issues emerging from the first 10 pilot sites implementing the Nurse-Family Partnership home-visiting programme in England

The role of the community nurse in family health care.

Die veld van die gemeenskapsverpleegkundige in gesinsorg sluit moederen kindergesondheid, beheer van aansteeklike siektes, skoolgesondheidsdienste, bedryfsgesondheid, gemeenskapspsigiatrie, bejaardesorg en gesondheidsvoorligting in. In haar werk is die volgende deurlopende doelwitte belangrik: — om gesondheidsbehoeftes te bepaal; — om ’n besef van gesondheidsbehoeftes te kweek; — om beleid wat ...