Health nurses assist in the development of new methods to help parents of vulnerable children.

In recent years, health nurses from a number of Danish municipalities have developed, tested and implemented the PUF programme, which is a method for upgrading the municipalities’ basic measures targeting the health and development of infants.

In Infant Health, the health nurses in the municipalities of Albertslund, Allerød, Brøndby, Dragør, Egedal, Fredensborg, Gladsaxe, Glostrup, Herlev, Hillerød, Høje-Taastrup, Kalundborg, Køge, Roskilde, Rudersdal and Vejle go one step further by mapping what is needed in order to help the most vulnerable infants.

Within the framework of the municipal healthcare, the health nurses have helped to develop a special initiative called VIPP-PUF, which is a parent-based initiative, the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting (VIPP) and the PUF programme.

The health nurses and their managers are key players in Infant Health: The managers are involved in all phases of the planning, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the project, and they are part of the overall project steering group. A group of health nurses is part of a VIPP-PUF expert group which contributes to the planning and implementation of the VIPP-PUF initiative in the individual municipalities.