Features
Getting serious about violence
Dr Niamh Ní Longáin of the NHS London Violence Reduction Programme explains how you can help support young people at risk of injury and death.
One-to-one: listening, learning, leading
Almost six months into her role as Wales’ top nurse, Sue Tranka talks about her journey so far and her key priorities for the future, including for the CP workforce.
Transition to adoptive parenthood: a concept analysis
Tracey Long, Catriona Jones, Julie Jomeen and Colin R Martin define transition to adoptive parenthood and identify associated experiences and challenges, when becoming parents by adoption.
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Breaking the inequality cycle
With a growing crisis in the cost of living and little financial relief for the worst-off, the gap between the most and least healthy is likely to widen. Journalist Sarah Campbell looks at these inequalities and asks if they can ever improve.
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Using disinfectant in pregnancy linked to childhood asthma and eczema
Exposure to disinfectants during pregnancy may be a risk factor for asthma and eczema in children, a study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggests.
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Babies treated for hypoglycemia suffer no adverse academic outcomes
Babies born with and treated for low blood sugar are not likely to perform worse academically in mid-childhood, research suggests.
ResearchHealth and wellbeing, Growth and development
Resources
What evidence is there to support parental ACE screening within health visiting practice? A literature review
Victoria MacLellan and Peter Yates examine the experiences of parents and service providers during routine parental ACE screening.
Mapping the learning journey of community nursing students in a digitalised world
Cathy Taylor looked at the perceptions of nurses when using e-portfolios to record their work. Here, she discusses the benefits and pitfalls of digital recording, and its potential for expansion.
A literature review of global social marketing campaigns to improve breastfeeding rates
Ayelet Levi-Brown and David Pontin carried out a literature review to appraise a social marketing campaign that raised breastfeeding rates. Health visitors can use this model to scrutinise local campaigns.
Opinion
New ways of working
A health visitor reveals how she coped and thrived while in post (and shielding) during the pandemic.
Menopause at work matters
Unite-CPHVA is serious about women’s rights at work during menopause, says Unite national officer Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe.
The haunting
Ann Guindi examines how vicarious trauma can affect health workers and what steps can be taken to help these ‘wounded healers’.
Community Practitioner
In Depth
Understanding neonatal jaundice
Elaine Robinson, senior lecturer at Northumbria University, and Nicci Jones-Anderson, a medical student at Newcastle University, explore the therapeutic pathways for jaundice in newborns.
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Alarm bells ringing: the adult care crisis
Successive governments have failed to stop the rot in the adult social care system, and it is now approaching crisis point. As we go to the polls, journalist Linsey Wynton explores what’s at fault, what’s needed and how urgently.
What do you see?
Negative body image is an issue for children and adults alike. What’s the impact, and how can you help? Journalist Anna Scott reports.
Time for a screen break?
Concerns have been raised that digital devices are now a fundamental part of so many children’s lives, but are there mixed messages around the impact on young people? And how can you help parents navigate the advice? Journalist Georgina Fuller reports.
