Our new manuscript published in Nurse Education Today highlights essential qualities needed by the health and welfare workforce to enact collaborative public health responses to child maltreatment.
Our study explored perspectives of Australian nursing, midwifery, and social work professionals on the needs within pre-service education to enable effective interprofessional public health responses to child maltreatment. This qualitative study involved 25 participants, including nurses, midwives, and social workers from Australia, all with expertise in tertiary education, professional regulation or child protection.
Importantly, we identified four core areas of focus essential for health and welfare professionals to effectively collaborate in responding to child maltreatment. These core areas are described as graduate qualities, encompassing broad domains of knowledge, skills, and values that are transferable across multiple areas of practice.
Challenges to interprofessional curriculum included a lack of a shared interprofessional language and priorities, highlighting the need for shared understandings that acknowledge disciplinary nuances. Addressing this gap is essential to foster a unified approach to better equip future professionals for prevention and early support when families experience adversity.
Our full manuscript is freely available here.
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