title: Red flags during home visitation: infants and toddlers.
abstract: High-risk families remain a challenge for all who provide community-based health services, particularly home visitations. The purpose of this article is to describe red flags, that is, any physical, developmental, or psychosocial findings identified during a home visit that require further evaluation or referral. The red flags were developed to increase the community-based provider's ability to assess the health status of children and to support efforts to provide home intervention services for children at risk for abuse and neglect. These red flags are useful to nurses working in collaboration with nonnursing professionals providing home visits.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33143, USA. epvasquez@miami.edu
authors.forename: Elias
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vasquez
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pitts
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002652:Child Behavior; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006304:Health Status; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009728:Nursing Assistants; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors