Public Health Nursing Services
Public Health Nursing Services include:
- Health visiting
- School nursing
- School immunisation teams
- Health protection nursing
- Family Nurse Partnership
Health visitors and school nurses are registered nurses who have specialist training, and are supported by community public health nursing.
They visit parents at home, offering support and advice from pregnancy in the antenatal period, until the child starts school. The service is for all children, from birth up to four years.
School nurses offer health reviews from when your child starts primary school and post primary school – for all children 5-19 years.
Health Protection Nursing Service
The Health Protection Nursing Service is a nurse-led, specialist community public health nursing service available for Tuberculosis (TB) screening, including new entrant Latent TB screening and selective BCG immunisation for all new notified entrants including adults and children form high incidence countries.
This includes:
- Tuberculosis (TB) contact tracing, screening including management support for TB cases residing in the Northern Trust, that are notified by the Public Health Agency.
- New entrant TB screening and health advice for notified new entrants arriving to reside in the Northern Trust from high incidence TB countries.
- Neonatal and school age BCG immunisation for referred children up to 16 years old who meet the selective TB risk criteria. BCG immunisation is also provided to TB contacts up to the age of 35 years old who are identified and screened as TB contacts.
- BCG immunisation is also provided to TB contacts up to the age of 35 years old who are identified and screened as TB contacts.
- Coordination of Hepatitis B immunisation for infants at risk born to Hepatitis B positive parents
- TB education and training (including specialist Mantoux testing)
The service is continually evolving to meet the needs of ethnic populations residing within the Trust.
Contact
Telephone: 028 7954 7470
Family Nurse Partnership
The Family Nurse Partnership helps young mums have a healthy pregnancy. It is a free and voluntary programme for those mothers under 20 who are expecting their first baby. A nurse will give you support and information, which will help you understand more about your pregnancy, and how to care for yourself and your baby.
The nurse will visit regularly from early in your pregnancy, until your child is two years old. The visits usually last about an hour.
You and your family nurse can decide together what you discuss during each visit. Dads or partners can also join in .
Your family nurse will share lots of information about pregnancy, giving birth and looking after your baby. This helps you to prepare and to make choices that are right for your and your family.
Your nurse will help you plan for your future, whether that be in education, training or gaining new skills. You can also get advice about housing or finances.
Contact
Family Nurse Supervisor
Telephone: 028 2564 1468
