Nurse Family Partnership : A Community Health Based Home Visiting Program

The family health nurse providing care in the community must integrate community involvement and knowledge about the population with their personal and clinical comprehension of health and illness experiences of individuals and families within a population (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon Hanson, 2015). Nurse Home Visiting Programs The visiting nurse can assess a family’s health statues in their environment that will allow them to develop specific interventions and strategies, as well

for come from homes where they have been abused, the father of the baby is not involved in their lives, or they lack any other form of social support. I specifically remember a teen couple that was going through their first pregnancy together. However, her pregnancy wasn’t what any new parents could expect to prepare for. She was expecting a set of twins, both of which were IUGR (intrauterine growth restriction), and were expected to have some form of mental disability. Their family background was

assistance from health or social services that can meet with them geographically and psychologically (Glavin, 2013). Nurses all over the world share the same beliefs and values of promoting of health and prevention of diseases, holistic care no matter the living conditions, collaboration with the government, client, and health organizations, caring and understanding relationship, and independence in public health (DM). In the United States, a Nurse-Family Partnership is a free voluntary program that services

Slide 1: Hello, and welcome to the “Public Health Detailing” webinar, sponsored by the Center for Public Health Continuing Education at the University at Albany, School of Public Health in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health. Slide 2: By the end of this production you will be able to: describe the concept of detailing as applied to public health practice, explain the rationale and goals of the health care provider office visit approach and cite evidence of its effectiveness

Policy Title: Nurse Family Partnership The Policy’s Goals: Nurse-Family Partnership is an evidence-based, community health program aides change the lives of defenseless mothers pregnant with their first child through the help of an assigned nurse. The NFP Goals (Nurse Family Partnership in New York, 2014) are: Enhance pregnancy results by helping women take responsibility in good preventive health practices that includes thorough prenatal care from their primary care providers, stabilizing their

Home visiting programs. These are evidence based programs that target the early development of the child by promoting positive parenting and thus prevent child abuse and neglect. There are different types of models such as Healthy Families, Nurse Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers and Early Head Start. They make use of child welfare staff, nurses or trained paraprofessionals using a curriculum that involves two major approaches which may be parent based or child based (Cullen, Ownbey, & Ownbey

One of the core competencies of public health is partnership and collaboration, and over the years, the need for collaborative partnerships between primary care and public health has grown substantially. Studies have shown that collaborative partnerships between primary care and public health working together towards a common goal, is essential for improving health quality (Valaitis, 2012). Bramalea Community Health Centre (BCHC) is a non-profit organization located at 40 Finchgate Boulevard (Suite

This paper considers The Nurse-Family Partnership home-visiting program as a means of prevention of reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Sociocultural evaluation The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) home-visiting program was developed to specifically help first time disadvantage mothers and their children who have the following risks: teenage mothers, unmarried, and/or are from low socioeconomic status (Howard & Brooks-Gunn, 2009). The program was developed in 1977 by psychologist David L. Olds, and

Charles B Wolfe Chamberlain College of Nursing Evaluating a Website for Credibility A search for men’s health related website conducted using the public search engine Google.com. Men’s Health Network (MHN), http://www.menshealthnetwork.org, is a nonprofit organization reaching out to males and their families focusing on the growing health crisis that affect the premature mortality of men (Men’s Health Network, 2014). Approximately 50% of the population is male; evaluating the sites credibility is important

Despite the long-term benefits of transposing developmental crime prevention approaches, they can be seen as problematic as well. One of the major problems is that because it addresses social issues, its evaluation becomes difficult and complex . Additionally, getting public support is also difficult due to the media. Instead portraying the benefits of such initiatives, the media has the tendency to shape the public’s view that crime prevention requires more police control and harsher punishments