Health visiting research: Overcoming barriers

Sphere of influence B: Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice: evidence, research, evaluation and translation.

The forgotten frontline: Unveiling the realities of school and public health nursing

The State of Child Health report in 2020 revealed that performance against key indicators had worsened or stalled, there have been increases in mental illness, child poverty, youth violence, children...

Co-producing SCPHN School Nursing programmes: Engaging children and young people

Co-production in higher education involves collaborating with various stakeholders to co-design, co-manage, co-deliver and co-evaluate educational programmes (Brown Wilson et al, 2022). For NMC (2023)...

Empowering the workforce in the community

New horizons for children and families

None of us need reminding of the importance of early childhood experiences in relation to physical, intellectual, and emotional development. However, it is just as essential to promote healthy...

News

Neglect has become ‘normalised’ as poverty has risen and community support for parents has decreased. However, too often it does not meet the threshold for intervention..

A reflective case study: Preparing for an NMC approval event

Our SCPH team consisted of an academic portfolio lead, a programme leader, a senior teaching fellow and a school nurse lecturer practitioner who played a crucial role in shaping the school nursing...

Improving inhaler technique and adherence in children

‘MDIs are considered more challenging to use than most other devices … Spacer devices are therefore helpful tools that … minimise coordination difficulties, reduce oropharyngeal deposition and...

Barriers to health visitors identifying child neglect

A search of literature published between 2015 and 2023 focused on westernised healthcare provision, excluding hospital or care home settings. The inquiry used the terms ‘health visitor’, ‘specialist...

Women's experiences of the transition to motherhood and self-compassion

The WHO (2022) stresses the need for high-quality postnatal care to improve the outcomes of maternal and infant health and wellbeing, and promote positive postnatal experiences. Increasingly,...

The role of moral disengagement and lack of empathy in cyberbullying: How school nurses can respond

Developing interventions that target perpetrators as well as victims is essential in addressing the rising incidence of cyberbullying that CYP currently encounter. SNs need to take the lead and work...

Phobia: Supporting children and young people with specific fears

‘And though there is no evidence for phobias pre-programmed through evolution, there is some evidence in animals that suggests that we may be readier to learn a fear to an evolutionary relevant...