Public Health Nursing - Nurse Family Partnership (formerly Health Futures)

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Public Health Nursing

Hours:
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Monday - Friday

Nurse-Family Partnership
(formerly Health Futures)
Community Nursing Program

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) helps first-time parents succeed

The Orange County NFP program is the local site for the national Nurse-Family Partnership program, based in Denver, Colorado. Highly educated Public Health Nurses visit regularly during a 2½ year period, beginning in pregnancy. Families develop skills for parenting and economic self-sufficiency as they work with the nurse home visitor in the following areas:

Personal Health
Environmental Health
Maternal Role Development
Family & Friends
Life Course Development
Health and Human Services

Services Provided

Public health nursing services are provided in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. They include, but are not limited to, assessment, health teaching and referral, case management and community resources.

www.nursefamilypartnership.org

Our three main objectives are:

to foster healthier pregnancies
to improve the health and development of children
to encourage self-sufficiency

Home Visit Schedule

Once the client has been enrolled in the program, the nurse home visitor will visit:

Weekly for the first four weeks
Every other week until the child is born
Weekly, again, for six weeks
Every other week until the child is 21 months old
Monthly until the child is two years old

The Nurse-Family Partnership Program is based on the Prenatal and Early Childhood Model developed by David Olds, PhD.

Program Eligibility

Who is eligible to participate? Young women who are:

Under 24 years old, and
Less than 28 weeks pregnant*, and
First time pregnant and parenting, and
Eligible for Medi-Cal, CalOptima or emergency/pregnancy Medi-Cal, and
Desire to be involved in this program

(*The nurse must be able to make a home visit before the 28th week of pregnancy. Please refer as early in the pregnancy as possible.)

Referrals

The Nurse-Family Partnership receives referrals from a variety of sources, such as community and health clinics, private physicians offices, high schools, community-based organizations, Social Services Agency programs and Health Care Agency programs. To refer someone, please call (714) 834-7747 for more information and a referral form

Orange County Nurse-Family Partnership Information

Outcomes for NFP graduates:

34% continued to work toward their diploma or General Education Development (GED)
45% had earned their diploma/GED
19% were pursing education beyond high school

The NFP enrolls women who are at higher risk for poor birth outcomes than the general population. Outcomes for the children of NFP graduates:

Birth Outcomes

5% of NFP babies were premature, fewer than the OC rate of 9.8% (2002)
and the CA rate of 10.2% (2002).

Immunizations

90% or higher at 24 months of age compared to CA rate of 72% (2004).

Breastfeeding

76% of NFP mothers initiated breastfeeding and 16% continued to breastfeed when their children were 12 months of age.

Emergency Room Visits

82% of children had one or no visits to the ER by the age of 24 months, with the majority of those visits (83%) due to illness rather than injury or ingestion.

For more information, please call:

Partnership Information (NFP) NURSE-FAMILY
Public Health Community Nursing

Phone . . . . . (714) 834-7747

Fax . . . . . . . (714) 834-7977

ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH CARE AGENCY
PUBLIC HEALTH
COMMUNITY NURSING
P.O. BOX 6099
SANTA ANA, CA 92706