title: Qualitative study on the role of nurses as health case managers of children in foster care in California.
abstract: This qualitative study on nurses who provide health case management for children in foster care examined their vision for the care needed to improve health outcomes. A purposive sample of eight public health nurses was selected to participate in semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using content analysis to formulate a narrative description of the nurses' vision. Two themes emerged from the data: (1) the desire to give holistic care with an emphasis on mental health care and (2) the difficulty with providing preventive care as a result of multiple causes of health problems.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0411, USA. juschnei@usc.edu
authors.forename: Janet U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Schneiderman
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration