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Children's Community Nursing
Ruth Davies
Children and Young People's Nursing: Principles for Practice, Pages: 237 - 256
Swansea University Author: Ruth Davies
Abstract
This chapter will begin with a historical overview of the care of sick children to show that care outside of the home is a relatively new development. In doing so, it will trace the early beginnings of community children’s nursing, it’s continuing expansion and present day scope of practice using re...
| Published in: | Children and Young People's Nursing: Principles for Practice |
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London
Hodder Arnold
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14058 |
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This chapter will begin with a historical overview of the care of sick children to show that care outside of the home is a relatively new development. In doing so, it will trace the early beginnings of community children’s nursing, it’s continuing expansion and present day scope of practice using real life exemplars. The underlying theme throughout this chapter is the need to increase the number of Community Children’s Nursing Teams and Community Children’s Nurses for these can provide practical hands-on care as well as support to the child and family and in effect ‘more hands and hearts in the home’. The case for this is put forward with reference to present day child policy, research with children and their families as well as other empirical findings. It is argued that such a move will reduce hospital admissions, give the child and parents the choice of hospital or home care and in particular support parents who care for a child with long term complex needs at home. Increasing provision is advocated on humanitarian grounds rather than as a means of saving money for the NHS on expensive hospital care. The present inequity throughout the United Kingdom is highlighted using Wales as a typical example based on a recent scoping exercise. Suggestions on ways to increase provision are put forward as well as the need for Community Children’s Nurses to work at a strategic and political level to achieve this. It is noted that any expansion will have to be matched by an increase in educational places at pre and post registration level and in setting out the future opportunities open for children’s nurses acknowledges that caring for children in their own homes is in itself a rewarding career. |
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Children and Young People's Nursing: Principles for Practice Co-edited Ruth Davies and Alyson Davies, Swansea University Foreword to book by Children's Commissioner for Wales |
| Keywords: |
children's communiity nursing |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Start Page: |
237 |
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256 |