Abstract
Background: The knowledge that children are exposed to child abuse or neglect affects humans strongly. Child maltreatment is when an adult exposes a child to physical or mental violence, sexual assault, abuse or neglect, and failure to meet the child´s basic needs. District nurse's role in child health care is to reduce harmful stress on the families with children, and to reduce health problems for families and provide support and care to children and parents. The Aim of this study was to explore district nurses experiences in working with vulnerable children and their families, and how the district nurse support and treat the family. Method: Eight district nurses were interviewed and a qualitative content analysis with inductive approach was used to analyze data. Results: This study results in three main categories and nine sub-categories. The main categories are: Vulnerability from a district nurse perspective. The district nurses protect the family. District nurse's engagement: Conclusion: District nurse's interventions in daily work with vulnerable children and their families, has to be facilitated by clarifying their professional liability of the relationships with families. That will provide the families to come with their children to the child health care, and enable the district nurses to protect and support them.
Date of Award | 2012-May-10 |
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Original language | Swedish |
Supervisor | Kerstin Samarasinghe (Supervisor) & Ingemar Andersson (Examiner) |
Educational program
- Graduate diploma in primary health care specialist nursing
University credits
- 15 HE credits
Swedish Standard Keywords
- Nursing (30305)
Keywords
- district nurse
- child health care
- child maltreatment
- vulnerable children
- vulnerable families
- relationships
- support
- protect.