Safeguarding of vulnerable adults training: assessing the effect of continuing professional development

Ochieng, Bertha; Ward, Kerrie

doi:10.7748/nm.2018.e1781

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“…Knowledge and skills modelling demonstrated intended change management strategies to improve how professionals identify abuse to better protect adults and/or children in safeguarding contexts, signposting to poor staf adherence to national, legislature, or local policies [54,56]. Evaluating safeguarding training or education was evident [70], often following a crisis such as premature deaths [55,59,95] or domestic abuse [61]. Preregistration preparation for nursing practice featured [62,85] and there was some strategic (local board) mobilisation of evidence about child sexual exploitation and neglect [68,69].…”

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“…Te type of knowledge shared suggests how it is intended to be mobilised for healthcare, yet necessarily involves working across professional boundaries to share information with other professional and lay populations. For example, simulated training and educational interventions showcased role-playing opportunities to improve students and practitioners' assessment and decision-making capacity for safeguarding adults and children from maltreatment and harm [48,64,65,70,91].…”

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Knowledge Mobilisation in Safeguarding Adults and Children for Healthcare in England

Clark,

Vakaj,

Biernat

et al. 2023

Health & Social Care in the Community

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Safeguarding for healthcare involves working together to protect adults, children, and young people at risk of harm. Despite global research and national guidance outlining health professionals’ roles in this regard, there is limited knowledge about the type of strategies used to mobilise safeguarding research to practitioners in England. Our critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) sought to explore how safeguarding knowledge is mobilised to enable practitioners to use research effectively. This synthesis aimed to bridge the theory-practice gap in mobilising safeguarding knowledge to practitioners. Knowledge mobilisation (KMb) is an emerging discipline concerned with moving knowledge across communities to catalyse change. This review aimed to build understanding about how safeguarding knowledge is mobilised for healthcare in England and to synthesise the type of approaches undertaken to protect adults and children from harms, including abuse. A critical interpretive synthesis was undertaken using KMb theory and computer-assisted modelling technologies for secondary thematic analysis of complex literature of relevance, including qualitative research, reviews, and reports. Few papers informed how safeguarding knowledge is mobilised for healthcare in England. Learning from experience dominated the literature in three ways: (i) crisis response, (ii) practice engagement, and (iii) influencing actions (for “best” practice). Embedding safeguarding knowledge and skills in healthcare settings usually followed a crisis response. Learning from experience showed movement between practice engagement and influencing actions for adult and/or child protection. KMb might be useful in supporting the implementation of evidence-based safeguarding for practice. CIS identified a gap in how safeguarding research is mobilised to practitioners for healthcare. KMb theory provided an analytical bridge to computer-assisted modelling of factors associated with moving learning from experience to learning in practice. Future research could build on hybrid synthesising of safeguarding functions and impacts for healthcare, to enable practitioners to protect adults and children from multiple harms, including violence and abuse.

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