HEALTH VISITOR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Health Visitor Implementation Plan

Health Visitor Implementation Plan

Introduction

The study is related to the health visitor implementation plan which particularly focuses on the benefit to children and families. The health visitor implementation plan is important for to consider as the plan will help the families and also the children as the health visitor implementation plan will help in reducing the health inequalities by working with individuals, families, and communities to promote health and prevent ill health, with emphasis on partnership that cuts across disciplinary, professional, and organizational boundaries.

Discussion

Health Visitor Implementation plan and Children and Families

The health visitor implementation plan will benefit children and families and will also lead three work programs to support the implementation plan that include the following;

The growing the workforce will work to collect relevant data on health visitors, plan recruitment and retention initiatives and work on increased places and flexible training options.

Aligning the delivery systems will align the service vision and model for key stakeholders; develop a commissioning framework and outcome measures.

The professional mobilization will develop the communications and engagement strategy, share good practice, design and delivery of a recruitment campaign and work on leadership development.

It is intended that the health visitor implementation plan will allow implementers to spread good practice from the pilot areas.

Health Visiting

The health visitor implementation plan will support the recruitment of additional health visitors. The plan sets out the vision of the new health visiting service, the call to action for the stakeholders involved, the pathway to 2015 and information about the work programs that will support the implementation health visitor plan.

It is the objective of the health visitor plan to recruit an extra 4,200 health visitors by 2014. The health visitor implementation plan provides the information from various sites; that have recently provided return to practice courses with their universities. It looks at the main issues around training, course costs, findings and recommendations which other employers can use when considering running return to practice programs (Christopher, Dunnagan, Duncan and Paul, 2001, 134-142).

The community nursing workforce at the time of the pilot consisted of a number of discrete roles, all involved in the delivery of care in people's homes. Health visitors, more latterly titled public health nurses, mainly focus on reducing health inequalities by working with individuals, families, and communities to promote health and prevent ill health, with emphasis on partnership that cuts across disciplinary, professional, and organizational boundaries. What often happens, despite an emphasis on a life-span approach within the statutory standards and the educational preparation, is that health visitors largely work with children under the age of 5 years and their families, with a major emphasis on child protection (Hartrick, 2000, 27-34). Policy in the United Kingdom over the past decade has highlighted the importance of the health visitor role in working with children from the birth to 18 years, recognizing the importance of addressing health behaviors in the school-age population, particularly with regard to smoking, exercise, diet, and sexual behavior (International Council of Nurses, ...