Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm

Despite the increasing prevalence of hospital admissions for self-harm in children and young people (CYP), there is paucity of registered children’s nurse (rCN) training or involvement of children to improve care for this often stigmatized patient group. This article describes a participatory approa...

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Main Authors: Latif, Asam, Carter, Timothy, Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy, Wharrad, Heather, Manning, Joseph
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Published: SAGE 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41488/
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author Latif, Asam
Carter, Timothy
Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy
Wharrad, Heather
Manning, Joseph
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Carter, Timothy
Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy
Wharrad, Heather
Manning, Joseph
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description Despite the increasing prevalence of hospital admissions for self-harm in children and young people (CYP), there is paucity of registered children’s nurse (rCN) training or involvement of children to improve care for this often stigmatized patient group. This article describes a participatory approach towards using co-production with CYP and rCN to develop a digital educational programme to improve nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and confidence in caring for CYP with self-harm injuries. A priority-setting workshop with rCNs was used to establish consensus of information needs. This was followed by an e-learning content development workshop undertaken with CYP whom had previously experienced hospital admissions for self-harm injuries. Findings from the nurse priority-setting workshop identified three educational priorities: (1) knowledge of self-harm, (2) effective communication and (3) risk management. The CYP subsequently developed these topic areas to ensure the contents and design of the e-learning resource had fidelity by reflecting the experiences of CYP and needs when cared for in hospital. This article illustrates that involving service users to co-develop educational materials is a feasible and important step in designing educational resources and ensures the content is relevant, appropriate and sensitive to both the recipient of care and those responsible for its delivery.
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spelling nottingham-414882020-05-04T18:38:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41488/ Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm Latif, Asam Carter, Timothy Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy Wharrad, Heather Manning, Joseph Despite the increasing prevalence of hospital admissions for self-harm in children and young people (CYP), there is paucity of registered children’s nurse (rCN) training or involvement of children to improve care for this often stigmatized patient group. This article describes a participatory approach towards using co-production with CYP and rCN to develop a digital educational programme to improve nurses’ knowledge, attitudes and confidence in caring for CYP with self-harm injuries. A priority-setting workshop with rCNs was used to establish consensus of information needs. This was followed by an e-learning content development workshop undertaken with CYP whom had previously experienced hospital admissions for self-harm injuries. Findings from the nurse priority-setting workshop identified three educational priorities: (1) knowledge of self-harm, (2) effective communication and (3) risk management. The CYP subsequently developed these topic areas to ensure the contents and design of the e-learning resource had fidelity by reflecting the experiences of CYP and needs when cared for in hospital. This article illustrates that involving service users to co-develop educational materials is a feasible and important step in designing educational resources and ensures the content is relevant, appropriate and sensitive to both the recipient of care and those responsible for its delivery. SAGE 2017-03-16 Article PeerReviewed Latif, Asam, Carter, Timothy, Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy, Wharrad, Heather and Manning, Joseph (2017) Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm. Journal of Child Health Care . pp. 1-10. ISSN 1741-2889 Children and young people participation digital educational intervention information technology nurse education self-harm http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367493517697853 doi:10.1177/1367493517697853 doi:10.1177/1367493517697853
spellingShingle Children and young people participation
digital educational intervention
information technology
nurse education
self-harm
Latif, Asam
Carter, Timothy
Rychwalska-Brown, Lucy
Wharrad, Heather
Manning, Joseph
Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title_full Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title_fullStr Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title_full_unstemmed Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title_short Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
title_sort co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children’s nurses to improve care of children and young people admitted with self-harm
topic Children and young people participation
digital educational intervention
information technology
nurse education
self-harm
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41488/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41488/