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Contributing to health visiting research: Participating in the ADBB study

02 November 2024
Volume 1 · Issue 3

Abstract

Health visitors play an important role in contributing to the national strategic plan for nursing research. While the need for health visitors to lead research may be more widely recognised, creating an enabling environment for research to take place and supporting health visitors to participate in research is less often reported. This article shares the experiences of health visitors and managers from the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust who participated in the Alarm Distress Baby Scale study carried out by the Institute of Health Visiting in partnership with the University of Oxford, contributing to the evidence base in this area.

In recent years there has been greater emphasis placed on nursing research. The Chief Nursing Officer for England launched the first ever research strategic plan for nursing in November 2021, which aims to create a people-centred research environment that empowers nurses to lead, participate in and deliver research, so that research is fully embedded in practice and professional decision-making, for public benefit (NHS England, 2021).

Health visitors play an important role in contributing to this national agenda (Baldwin et al, 2024a), which is also reflected in the new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (NMC, 2022). While the need for health visitors to lead research may be more widely recognised, creating an enabling environment for research to take place and supporting health visitors to participate in research is less often reported.

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