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Graduate qualities for preservice health and welfare professionals for collaborative prevention and early intervention for child maltreatment : A qualitative study
Lines, Lauren Elizabeth Kakyo, Tracy Alexis McLaren, Helen Cooper, Megan Sivertsen, Nina Hutton, Alison Zannettino, Lana Hartz, Donna Grant, Julian
Lines, Lauren Elizabeth
Kakyo, Tracy Alexis
McLaren, Helen
Cooper, Megan
Sivertsen, Nina
Hutton, Alison
Zannettino, Lana
Hartz, Donna
Grant, Julian
Abstract
Aim
This study explored Australian nursing, midwifery and social work perspectives on needs within pre-service education to enable interprofessional public health responses to child maltreatment.
Background
Child maltreatment is a global public health concern, but little is known about how well health and welfare professionals are equipped for interprofessional responses to child maltreatment during initial pre-service qualification.
Design
Qualitative, World Café approach with online roundtable discussions.
Methods
Twenty-five participants attended one of three online roundtables in October 2023. Participants were nurses, midwives and social workers from Australia with expertise in tertiary education, professional regulation and/or child protection. Data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis.
Results
Graduates are not well-equipped during their pre-service education for collaborative responses to child maltreatment. Findings identified four core areas of focus so health and welfare professionals can effectively collaborate to respond to child maltreatment. Core areas are described as graduate qualities and encompass broad domains of knowledge, skills and values which are transferable across multiple areas of practice.
Conclusions
Our study proposes core qualities which are essential for health and welfare professional pre-service education to equip graduates for collaborative responses to child maltreatment. Key barriers included lack of shared interprofessional language and priorities, meaning future work should establish consensus on essential knowledge, skills and values. A shared understanding which acknowledges disciplinary nuances is vital to inform curriculum that equips future professionals to collaboratively mitigate harms from child maltreatment
Keywords
interprofessional education, child protective services, child maltreatment, social worker, nurse, midwife, Australia
Date
2024
Type
Journal article
Journal
Nurse Education in Practice
Book
Volume
81
Issue
Page Range
1-7
Article Number
Article 104176
ACU Department
Faculty of Health Sciences
Collections
Relation URI
Source URL
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).