Resources for Specialist Community Health Nursing (Health Visiting) staff and students to support delivery of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway in Scotland, Pre-Birth to Pre-School
Topic outline
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Resources for Specialist Community Health Nursing (Health Visiting) staff and students to support delivery of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway in Scotland, Pre-Birth to Pre-School - (Scottish Government 2015)
NHS Health Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland worked in partnership to develop this area to provide further information on the delivery of the Public Health Resources toolkit as part of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway. This area provides links to the national information resources, information on e-learning and evidence about what works to support the core home visiting program as part of the Universal Health Visiting Pathway. We anticipate that this area will be a great time-saving and informative resource for higher education lecturers, teaching staff, students, practice teachers and health visitors.
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This supports Section 1 of the Public Health Resources Toolkit (page 49) ‘Supporting the Delivery of the Health Visitor Public Health Role’.
This section is split into the core issues as included in section 1 of the pathway and outlined in the list below. Resources and tools for practioners and for parents are identified.
- Preparing for parenthood and parenting support
- Child wellbeing and protection
- Child safety
- Financial inclusion, including poverty and debt, income maximisation and fuel poverty
- Gender based violence
- Immunisations
- Supporting tobacco control and reducing substance misuse
- Infant nutrition
- Maternal emotional health and wellbeing
- Nutrition
- Oral health
- Physical activity
- Healthy weight
- Sexual health
- Active play
Particular NHS Health Scotland resources are identified along those produced the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). The resources and evidence summaries identified are by no means exhaustive. While we acknowledge that others sources of evidence may be available, particular focus has been paid to evidence summaries produced by NHS Health Scotland and high quality clinical guidelines.
Please click on the thumbnail images below to access the resources
Core issue covered
in the reviewEvidence, policy and
resources for professionalsInformation resources
for parentsPreparing for parenthood
and
parent supportNHS Health Scotland briefing paper on the evidence of
effectiveness of parenting programmes:
Triple P, Incredible Years and Family Nurse PartnershipChild wellbeing
and protectionNational Child Protection Guidance for Scotland
NHS Education for Scotland - Child Protection
Education and Training ResourcesOn-line Child Protection Module
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Improving Wellbeing
Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014N/A Child safety Public health interventions to prevent
unintentional injuries among the under 15sISD Scotland
Poverty and debt Financial help in the early years
Gender based violence Domestic violence and abuse: how health services,
social care and the organisations they
work with can respond effectivelyScottish Government national
gender based violence and health
programme booklet What every health
worker needs to know about domestic abuseSave Lives (2015)
Immunisations A guide to childhood immunisation
Supporting tobacco control and
reducing substance misuseEvidence summary: public health
interventions to support smoking
cessation and prevention of uptakeEffectiveness evidence briefings
on tobacco and smoking cessationA guide to smoking cessation in Scotland 2010.
Contains several components: Helping a
smoker to stop smoking - Brief interventions;
Planning and providing
specialist smoking cessation services;
and a Brief interventions flowchart
(Note: There is also a harm
reduction addendum (2014) and
the brief interventions flowchart
has been updated in line with that.)Scottish Government’s second-hand
smoke campaign: Take it Right OutsideInfant nutrition
Raising the Issue of Maternal and Infant Nutrition e-learning training
Off to a Good Start –
all you need to know
about breastfeedingMaternal emotional
health and wellbeingNutrition Oral health SIGN 183 Dental Interventions to Prevent Caries in Children
Cochrane systematic review on fluoride varnishing
Childsmile
Healthy weight Healthy, happy kids...
Simple steps for a healthy weight at homeSexual health Physical active play Physical activity guidelines for the early years
(including guidelines for non-walkers and walkers)eLearning module raising the issue of physical activity
Play@Home - Baby
Play@Home - Toddler
Play@Home - Pre-school
play@home information leaflet
Further early years and health inequalities
Maternal and early years website – includes information on health inequalities
http://www.maternal-and-early-years-org.uk
Early Years Network. To join and sign up for a monthly e-news letter
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This section focuses on national information resources identified in Section 2 of the Public Health Resources Toolkit (page 49) ‘Resources and Assessment Tools’.
NHS Health Scotland and partner information resources are identified from pre-birth to pre-school as part of the programme of 11 home visits and 3 child health reviews. The resources are to be disseminated to parents and used to facilitate discussion in the delivery of the pathway and as aids to professionals to develop their knowledge and understanding on the key issues. The resources are shown visually with thumbnails (page 51-61) and are fully hyperlinked to the online resource.
Key universal parenting resources you should be aware of
There are key universal resources you should be familiar with and are recommended for use to support the delivery of the core home visiting programme. These are important and will support the relationship building with families and for your own knowledge and understanding. This does not mean other resources are less important.
Ready Steady Baby! and Ready Steady Toddler!
Ready Steady Baby! and Ready Steady Toddler! are key parenting resources. Ready Steady Baby! is aimed at expectant and new parents and provides parents with important information that they will need before, during, and after pregnancy. Ready Steady Toddler! is a guide to understanding toddler behaviour and ways for parents to tackle the new challenges of toddlerhood. Ready Steady Baby! is also available online and as a smartphone app and Ready Steady Toddler! is also available online.The full contents of Ready Steady Baby and Ready Steady Toddler books are also available to view online and print or you can order a copy for your own use to enable you to familiarise yourself with the contents.Translated versions:
Polish, Arabic, Russian, Urdu,
traditional Chinese (Cantonese),
and online. Partial translation
available in Latvian and
Lithuanian.Translated versions:
traditional Chinese
(Cantonese) and PolishOff to a Good Start
Off to a Good Start is an information booklet highlighting the benefits of, and available support for, breastfeeding. As with the other key resources, health professionals should refer to it and work through to support their interaction with women at all stages.
Translations:
Available in Polish
play@home baby, toddler and pre-school
play@home baby, toddler and pre-school books are provided to families in Scotland with a child 0–5 years old. Activities in the books are age and stage developmentally appropriate and promote all-round development and family communications.
Translations:
Play@home baby available in polish and gaelic
Play@home toddler available in traditional Chinese (Cantonese)
Along with our universal resources we provide tailored resources for parents with learning disabilities and young parents as outlined below.CHANGE resources for supporting parents with learning disabilities (Easy Read Resources)
NHS Health Scotland have worked with CHANGE who are a leading national human rights organisation, led by disabled people to provide three free, accessible easy-read information for parents with learning disabilities: My Pregnancy My Choice, You and Your Baby and You and Your Little Child.
How should CHANGE resources be used?
These resources should be provided by the professional providing care at the appropriate stages as an alternative to (or in addition to) RSB! and RST!.As recommended in the Refreshed Supported Parenting Guidelines (2015), expectant and new parents with learning disabilities should be given their own personal copy to keep and offered ongoing support to use these resources – they should be viewed as a communication tool alongside individual tailored support as communication needs and preferences can be very varied. Routinely check understanding and aim to reinforce learning through repetition and consistently referring back to the resources. For more tools on working with people with learning disabilities, visit the keys to life website.
Supporting Young Parents
The Young Parents Survival Guide is a resource for young parents providing a guide to pregnancy and parenthood in a young-person friendly way. This is provided to the young expectant parents as a supplement to Ready Steady Baby!
Translated Versions
We have noted the current languages the resources are translated into. They are available as hard copies for families or online. If you require the resource in another language or format please contact the publications team 0131 314 5300 or email nhs.healthscotland-alternativeformats@nhs.net . NHS Health Scotland can be contacted about materials for families whose vision is impaired, or for sources of information in other formats. NHS Health Scotland is committed to providing accessible and inclusive resources and will consider requests for other language translations and alternative languages and formats.
How to access/order
All NHS Health Scotland resources can be viewed and accessed online and information resources can be ordered via your local health promotion resource library. Should you have any queries please contact our publications team by calling 0131 314 5300 or email nhs.HealthScotland-Publications@nhs.net.
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Health Behaviour change eLearning suite
For instructions on how to register and enrol on our suite of Health Behaviour change eLearning modules www.healthscotland.com/documents/21538.aspx
To access the eLearning modules
The suite includes the following modules
• Equalities and Human Rights
• Awareness raising on health inequalities
• Tackling health inequalities
• Health Behaviour Change Level 1
• Health Behaviour Change Level 2
• Raising the issue of Alcohol
• Raising the issue of Child Healthy Weight
• Raising the issue of Physical Activity
• Raising the issue of Alcohol
• Raising the issue of Child Healthy Weight
• Raising the issue of Physical Activity
Other relevant training includes:
Building Compassionate Connections e-learning
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This document provides a summary of the best available evidence to support the Universal Health Visiting Pathway. As it integrates the evidence with each pathway visit, it is intended to support the work of health professionals, particularly health visitors.
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For further information please contact, nhs.HealthScotland-EarlyYears@nhs.net