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Systematic assessment in child protection: improving outcomes

Gerry Armitage1, Julie Taylor, Laura Ashley

  • 1Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Gerry.Armitage@bthft.nhs.uk

Nursing Children and Young People
|May 4, 2012
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Children

Area of Science:

  • Child protection
  • Nursing
  • Patient safety

Background:

  • Children's nurses require a thorough understanding of child protection processes.
  • Existing child protection approaches may lack systematic methodologies.
  • Patient safety analysis methods can inform child protection improvements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a tool for enhancing child protection.
  • To integrate human factors into the analysis of child protection processes.
  • To improve the serious case review process by identifying and mitigating potential failures.

Main Methods:

  • Application of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to child protection.
  • Incorporation of a framework considering human factors influencing performance.
  • Analysis of the serious case review process to identify potential failure points.

Main Results:

  • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) can systematically identify risks in child protection.
  • Considering human factors can reveal crucial influences on process performance.
  • The tool offers a method to reduce potential failures in serious case reviews.

Conclusions:

  • Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) provides a structured approach to child protection.
  • This method can enhance the effectiveness and reduce errors in serious case reviews.
  • Focusing on systemic issues rather than blame is key to improving child safety.

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