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The Child Welfare System: Through the Eyes of Public Health Nurses
Author(s) -
Schneiderman Janet U.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.0737-1209.2005.220412.x
Subject(s) - public health nursing , welfare , nursing , public health , theme (computing) , qualitative research , organizational structure , health care , nonprobability sampling , work (physics) , public relations , psychology , medicine , sociology , political science , environmental health , social science , population , computer science , law , operating system , mechanical engineering , engineering
 Objective: This qualitative descriptive study investigates how public health nurses working within the child welfare system view the organization and the organization's effect on their case management practice. Design : Semistructured interviews were conducted utilizing the Bolman–Deal Organizational Model. This model identifies four frames of an organization: symbolic, human resources, political, and structural. Sample : A purposive sample of nine nurses and one social worker was selected to participate in comprehensive interviews. Results : Data analysis identified two main themes. The first theme was the presence of organizational structural barriers to providing case management. The second theme was the lack of political influence by the nurses to change the structure of the organization; hence, their skills could be more completely utilized. Conclusions : Public health nurses who work in child welfare will need to systematically analyze their role within the organization and understand how to work in “host settings.” Nursing educators need to prepare public health nurses to work in non‐health care settings by teaching organizational analysis.

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