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Transcript: HEALTH Interview Pediatric nurse assistant Health Care Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity (WHO, 1948). Children Nurses provide expert care to the child while working with the family to address their concerns, fears, problems, and options. The job role of a pediatric nurse depends on the work setting, which might be a hospital, surgical center, doctor’s office, clinic, or other health care setting (GraduateNursingEDU.org). Multi-agency working is about providing a seamless response to individuals with multiple and complex needs. This could be as part of a multidisciplinary team or on an ad hoc basis. (SCIE.org.uk, 2010) Examples of this would be behaviour and education support teams (BESTs) and Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) (Gov.uk,2005). Multi-agency Working Multi-agency Working (community care, 2018) Multi-agency Working Benefits The benefits of working in a multi-agency way that was identified for children and their families. These centred on three main areas: improved services direct outcomes prevention. Improved access to services was commonly highlighted, as well as an improvement in children’s educational attainment and their access to education (Atkinson et al, 2002). The agencies that are involved, have advantages of multi-agency work which centres on offering them a broader perspective, a better understanding of the issues, and increased understanding, and improved interactions with, other agencies. For the individual professionals that are involved, on the one hand, working with professionals from other backgrounds was rewarding and stimulating. They commonly reported that their work alongside other professionals gave them a broad perspective and raised their awareness of the operation of other agencies (Atkinson et al, 2002). Challenges Challenges to Multi-agency Working There are eight key areas challenging to Multi agency working, these include fiscal resources which is low funding for services, roles and responsibilities which was adopted by thoses individuals working within multi-agency initiatives. competing individuals and agency priorities frequently cited as a challenge- this is a conflict between the aims of their agencies. non-fiscal resources - the impliaction of sustaining as well as developing multi-agency initiatives. Porr communication was recorded as a problem when working in a Multi- agency team as the communication between agencies was poor. professional and agency cultures- Another challenge to Multi-agency working with it being reported as having the potential to affect practice was the ‘agency culture’ within which practice took place. Management- The seventh challenge raised was how any single initiative is managed at strategic level. The last challenge of Multi- agency working is the training opportunities- This is missed opportunities for professional single-agency development delivered at ‘base’. (Atkinson et al 2005) Atkinson, M., Doherty, P., & Kinder, K. (2005). Multi-agency working. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 3(1), 7–17. doi:10.1177/1476718x05051344 Atkinson, M., Wilkon, A., Stott, A., Doherty, P., and Kinder, K. (2002) Multi-agency working: a detailed study. Community Care, (2018) Multi-agency workings failings hamper progress at "inadeqite" childrens services. Available at:https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/02/07/multi-agency-working-failings-hamper-progress-inadequate-childrens-services/ (Accessed:05.03.19) Challenging behaviour foundation, (2019) Behaviour support teams. Available at:https://www.challengingbehaviour.org.uk/understanding-behaviour/behaviour-support-teams.html (Accessed:05.03.19) Gov.uk (2005) Every child matters: Multi-agency working. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/every-child-matters (Accessed: 03.03.19) Gov.uk, (2019) Yputh Offending Teams, Available at:https://www.gov.uk/youth-offending-team (Accessed:05.03.19) GratuateNursingEdu.org (2019) What does a peadiatic nurse do? Available at:https://www.graduatenursingedu.org/pediatric-nurse-practitioner/what-does-a-pediatric-nurse-do/ (Accessed: 03.03.19) World Health Organisation (1948) What is the WHO definition of health. Available at: https://www.who.int/suggestions/faq/en/ (Accessed: 01.03.19) Social Care Institute for Excellent (2010), Outcome statement 10: Multi-agency working, Available at:https://www.scie.org.uk/publications/nqswtool/multiagencyworking/ (Accessed:04.03.19) References References