How to Work with Carers
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Advice for nurses working with children and young people
This information was updated May 2008. For further information, please contact advice@nmc-uk.org
Introduction
This information has been developed by the NMC in conjunction with children and young people, parents and other carers, nurses and other staff. It is relevant to all nurses and midwives seeking to develop their practice in order to respond sensitively and appropriately to the needs of children and young people.
In developing this advice, children and young people, parents and other carers, nurses and other staff who care for children and young people participated in a series of workshops across the UK to identify:
What should a child or young person expect from a nurse caring for them?
What should a nurse caring for children and young people be?
What should a nurse caring for children and young people do?
The findings are incorporated in this document.
The NMC recognises that the provision of contemporary healthcare to children and young people is strongly influenced by Government policy drivers across the four countries of the UK and by significant advances in knowledge and technological capability, which result in new interventions and changing public expectation.
Because the field of children’s and young people’s healthcare is developing rapidly and is challenging traditional boundaries of professional groups, ethical frameworks, models of service delivery and public expectation, nurses need additional advice in order to interpret The code: Standards for conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (2008) (the code) appropriately within this context.
The NMC recognises that safe, effective and appropriate children’s nursing involves more than just the application of theory to practice. It involves an awareness and application of self, a motivation to build trusting relationships with children and young people and with their parents, and active consideration of...
This information was updated May 2008. For further information, please contact advice@nmc-uk.org
Introduction
This information has been developed by the NMC in conjunction with children and young people, parents and other carers, nurses and other staff. It is relevant to all nurses and midwives seeking to develop their practice in order to respond sensitively and appropriately to the needs of children and young people.
In developing this advice, children and young people, parents and other carers, nurses and other staff who care for children and young people participated in a series of workshops across the UK to identify:
What should a child or young person expect from a nurse caring for them?
What should a nurse caring for children and young people be?
What should a nurse caring for children and young people do?
The findings are incorporated in this document.
The NMC recognises that the provision of contemporary healthcare to children and young people is strongly influenced by Government policy drivers across the four countries of the UK and by significant advances in knowledge and technological capability, which result in new interventions and changing public expectation.
Because the field of children’s and young people’s healthcare is developing rapidly and is challenging traditional boundaries of professional groups, ethical frameworks, models of service delivery and public expectation, nurses need additional advice in order to interpret The code: Standards for conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (2008) (the code) appropriately within this context.
The NMC recognises that safe, effective and appropriate children’s nursing involves more than just the application of theory to practice. It involves an awareness and application of self, a motivation to build trusting relationships with children and young people and with their parents, and active consideration of...