Child protection : guidance for senior nurses, health visitors and midwives

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Child protection : guidance for senior nurses, health visitors and midwives

Department of Health

H.M.S.O, 1992

2nd edition

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Description

Nurses have a crucial role to play in dealing with child abuse. They need to have a clear understanding of the role of the nurse and its responsibilities and their relationship to their managers, other members of the team and the senior nurse responsible for child protection. Clarity and understanding of the role of the nurse and its responsibilities is essential in the complex area of child protection since joint working between professionals within the NHS and other agencies is an intrinsic part of protecting children. This book is a valuable guide for nurses, health visitors and midwives to enable them to help protect children from abuse.

Table of Contents

  • Responsibilities of health authorites
  • senior nurses' key activities
  • hospital (accident and emergency
  • paediatric)
  • community-based nurses (health visitors
  • school nurses
  • district nurses
  • clinic nurses
  • practice nurses)
  • the midwife
  • mental illness
  • drugs abuse and alcohol misuse
  • learning difficulty (children with a learning difficulty
  • children remaining in hospital
  • parents with a learning difficulty)
  • involvement with local authorities
  • role of voluntary sector
  • confidentiality
  • child sexual abuse
  • organized abuse.

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