Partnership caring

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Summary: ‘Partnership caring’ emphasizes the current paediatric practices and their importance in paediatric nursing Today. The importance in not compromising care in a rapidly changing health scene is described when shrinking resources and increasing constraints put pressure on the health services. Important concepts such as pre‐admission programmes, creating the right environment for the child, family‐centred care, parent participation, family accommodation and supporting services, nursing documentation, the rights of the child and family, specialist and community nursing services as well as children's out‐patient services providing the vital link in the continuum of care are all emphasized. They show how these became ideas 5–6 years ago but are now firmly established in the philosophy of family‐centred care. In the new health service today, paediatric nurses face new challenges which emanate from the children and parents served, but also from within new clinical directorate structures. ‘However, within our new world of clinical directorates and when the clinical director has the executive authority to make and influence decisions, and when segmentalization of paediatric services becomes a real threat (and in some places this is happening now!) paediatric nurses must remember the children. We must stand firm in our values and beliefs and above all we must not allow these changes to compromise the care we give to children and their families.’

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