Citation

Ling MS, Luker KA. J. Adv. Nurs. 2000; 32(3): 572-579.

Affiliation

Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11012798

Abstract

Protecting children: intuition and awareness in the work of health visitors This paper is based upon an ethnographic study of a group of health visitors engaged in child protection work. The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings individual health visitors attach to events concerned with identifying children who may be at risk of harm from child abuse, and also the idiosyncratic nature of health visiting in this complex but everyday social situation. The paper focuses on understanding the importance of a particular form of knowledge which the health visitors referred to as 'intuitive awareness'.