Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing

Family-centred care (FCC) is widely promoted as a model for children’s health care in many countries throughout the world and in all spheres of children’s nursing education, management, policy and practice. However, research has failed to show that clinical practice uses the partnership model, centr...

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Main Authors: Randall, D., Munns, Ailsa, Shields, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Cambridge Publishing 2013
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14344
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description Family-centred care (FCC) is widely promoted as a model for children’s health care in many countries throughout the world and in all spheres of children’s nursing education, management, policy and practice. However, research has failed to show that clinical practice uses the partnership model, central to FCC. In this paper we suggest that, in part, the failure of FCC, as a project, is due to the lack of attention paid to the cultural, social and political context in which children’s health care is delivered. We propose that while the concepts of cultural safety and ethical symmetry may not replace that of FCC, they can be used to locate child-centred care within the complexity of children’s lives, as lived with illness.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-143442017-01-30T11:43:11Z Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing Randall, D. Munns, Ailsa Shields, L. nurse–patient relations cultural diversity Family-centred nursing ethical relativism Family-centred care (FCC) is widely promoted as a model for children’s health care in many countries throughout the world and in all spheres of children’s nursing education, management, policy and practice. However, research has failed to show that clinical practice uses the partnership model, central to FCC. In this paper we suggest that, in part, the failure of FCC, as a project, is due to the lack of attention paid to the cultural, social and political context in which children’s health care is delivered. We propose that while the concepts of cultural safety and ethical symmetry may not replace that of FCC, they can be used to locate child-centred care within the complexity of children’s lives, as lived with illness. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14344 http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=714372040617344;res=IELHEA Cambridge Publishing restricted
spellingShingle nurse–patient relations
cultural diversity
Family-centred nursing
ethical relativism
Randall, D.
Munns, Ailsa
Shields, L.
Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title_full Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title_fullStr Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title_full_unstemmed Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title_short Next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
title_sort next steps: towards child-focussed nursing
topic nurse–patient relations
cultural diversity
Family-centred nursing
ethical relativism
url http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=714372040617344;res=IELHEA
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14344