Children's nurse education-what is important to the service user?

摘要

This paper provides an overview of service user involvement of a group of children and young people with palliative care needs from a Children's hospice in the design and development of the BSc (Hons) Children's Nursing programme at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), Kent. It will specifically describe the children and young people's service user involvement in three key areas: programme development and contribution to the curriculum, selection of students and participation in the assessment of the students' clinical experience. The introduction of the new Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for pre-registration nurse education (2010) has led for the need to involve service users at the planning and development phase of new nurse educational programmes to ensure the delivery of high-quality care. The following key themes were identified as being important to the children and young people: communication, accessing mainstream education and transitioning. These have been incorporated and strengthened within the new children's nursing curriculum, creating a contemporary children's nursing programme in response to the needs of children and young people.