Visiting children in hospital: a vision from the past

1 April 2000

journal article
review article
Published by RCNi in Paediatric Nursing

Vol. 12 (3) , 32-35
https://doi.org/10.7748/paed.12.3.32.s23

Abstract

Jill Connell and Sue Bradley explore the historical basis for the present day practice of family-centred care of children in hospital in this review of the slow implementation of the Platt Report recommendations Paediatric nursing in the year 2000 in the United Kingdom differs greatly from practice 40 years ago. It is almost universally accepted that parents should participate in their children’s hospital care, if they wish to, reflecting an alteration of the nurse-parent relationship from control by the nurse, to a more egalitarian partnership.

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