School nurses meet obese children in their everyday work. Although school nurses acknowledge the importance of getting hold of school children's obesity, they seem to lack strategies enabling them to handle the delicacy of the problem. The aim of this study was to describe how school nurses perceive their work with obese children with support of an action plan. Qualitative in-depth interviews were performed with six school nurses working in a municipality, where an action plan for the work with obese school-age children had been implemented. The transcribed data was analysed by a manifest content analysis. The results showed that the informants perceived having a key role in the obesity work, which they experienced as meaningful, but full of pitfalls. They found themselves suitable for the task, but perceived lacking deeper knowledge about specific modes of work such as motivational conversation. As the task was considered delicate, there were great demands for guidelines, education and cooperation. The action plan served as support for maintaining professional confidence throughout the process, but there was room for improvements.

This study focuses on implementation of routine conversations about violence in a child health care context. The definition of violence in the study includes all forms of behaviour in close relationships that involve physical, psychological or sexual violations and/or abuse. It includes violence against children, Child Abuse (CA) and violence between the adults in the family, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) 1,2 Child Abuse and IPV are global public health problems. Children who are exposed to violence from their parents or other caregivers