Professional Resources
Useful resources to aid your CPD and revalidation with helpful tools and information for today's community practitioners - the journal's peer-reviewed professional research papers, our hosted webinars and reports. Our CPD modules are available across all devices and platforms, covering a range of clinical topics relevant to your practice.
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.
Health visitors’ experiences of conducting non-visual assessment of unwell pre-school children via the health visiting duty telephone service: an exploratory qualitative study
Debbie Outram and Lesley Dibley asked health visitors to rate the effectiveness of the telephone triage processes they follow, focusing on the heightened risk of an unsuccessful outcome and how that may influence their attitude to the task.
