Beyond the training, resources, and tools, the program supports frequent
nurse home visits during the first six weeks following the birth.
Examples of promising strategies include making home visits to families of chronically absent students,
providing nurse home visits to children with asthma, and providing school buses to transport young students to school.
Each mom is partnered with a registered nurse early in her pregnancy and receives ongoing
nurse home visits until the child turns 2 years of age.
Olds and others, Effects
of Nurse Home Visiting on Maternal and Child Functioning: Age 9 Follow - Up of a Randomized Trial (see note 69).
Based on those findings, the authors estimate that for cities of similar size averaging 3,187 births per year, an annual investment of approximately $ 2.2 million
in nurse home visiting would yield community healthcare cost savings of about $ 6.7 million in the first six months of life, or $ 3 saved for every $ 1 spent.
Massachusetts» Welcome Family program provides a universal one -
time nurse home visit to any mother giving birth in six pilot communities, with screening and referrals to both formal services and informal supports.
Family Risk as a Predictor of Initial Engagement and Follow - Through in a
Universal Nurse Home Visiting Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment Alonso - Marsden, Dodge, O'Donnell, Murphy, Sato, Christopoulos (2013) Child Abuse and Neglect, 37 (8) View Abstract Examines family demographic and infant health risk factors that predict engagement and follow - through in a universal home - based maltreatment prevention program for new mothers in Durham County, North Carolina.
Family Connects ® is a community -
wide nurse home visiting program for parents of newborns residing in a given geographic area.
Local agencies have historically collaborated
around nurse home visiting to coordinate, share resources and prevent duplication of services.
Nagle, Geoffrey A. and Neil W. Boris, «
Nurse Home Visiting Impact on Prenatal Maternal Depression and Partner Violence: Preliminary Results,» Tulane University Health Sciences Center — Tulane School of Medicine, 2008.
I have participated with my dogs in service and community education projects and group activities with Dog Scouts of America, and enjoyed
making nursing home visits with a certified therapy dog.
The services we provide are incredibly diverse and include such activities as conducting public
health nurse home visits for moms and babies, providing medical...
Job mainly consists of putting number codes, ICD - 9 & some CPT codes on hospital stays, emergency room & outpatient clinic visits as well doing the same on lab & x-ray reports &
physician nursing home visits.
Families in eight Victorian and Tasmanian communities are invited to participate in a
new nurse home visiting research trial designed to promote family wellbeing and child development.
A total of 743 primarily black women at < 29 weeks of gestation, with no previous live births and with ≥ 2 sociodemographic risk characteristics (unmarried, < 12 years of education, or unemployed), were randomly assigned to
receive nurse home visits or comparison services.
Divorce can have unwanted practical consequences for pensions, Social Security benefits, taxes, insurance, estate law, medical decision - making, even hospital and
nursing home visiting rights, among other things.
Based on the findings, researchers estimate that for cities of a similar size averaging about 3,187 births a year, an annual investment of $ 2.2 million
in nurse home visiting would result in a community health care cost savings of about $ 7 million in the first two years of a child's life.
For example, a 15 year follow up study by Olds and colleagues of a group of mothers randomly allocated to
nurse home visiting during pregnancy and early childhood, has shown considerable benefit.
Learn how Durham Connects, which
provides nurse home visits to newborns, has been shown to reduce emergency hospital care for them.
Massachusetts» Welcome Family program provides a universal one -
time nurse home visit to any mother giving birth in six pilot communities, with screening and referrals to both formal services and informal supports.
Family Connects ® is a community -
wide nurse home visiting program for parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status.
Community service, such
as nursing home visits, obedience demonstrations in the community or a «Walk with Fido» for charity.
The Division of Public Health is working with the Center for Child and Family Health and the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University to effectively implement and sustain Northeast Connects, a short - term, community - based, universal
newborn nurse home visiting program.