Building the nurses of the future, information for curriculum developers:

1. Building the nurses of the future, information for curriculum developers: Family and child views on being hospitalised and the nurses who care for them.

2. Tomorrows children’s nurses Developing the new curriculum top meet the NMC 2001 standards

3. The team • Ms T Fletcher. Lecturer in children’s and young people’s nursing • E.A. Glasper. Professor of children’s and young people’s nursing • Mrs G Prudhoe. Lecturer in children’s and young people’s nursing • Mrs Cath Battrick. Matron Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust. • Mrs Lesley Coles. Interim Head of Children’s Nursing Services and Operational Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS • Lorraine Ireland. Child field of practice curriculum lead • Ms Katy Weaver. Play specialist .Brighton children’s hospital

4. The new NMC standards for pre-registration nursing programmes (NMC 2010) are quite explicit in emphasising the need for Universities and their partner NHS Trusts to engage with patients and members of the public in developing both nurse training courses and services. New standards for programme developers

5. Objectives To ascertain the views of children, young people and their families on what skills, knowledge and attitudes, children’s nurses of the future will need to care for sick children and their families. To seek the views of young people on what children think about when they are about to be admitted to hospital and subsequently as inpatients. Aim:To reflect family and child user involvement in the development of a curriculum for a new undergraduate children’s nursing programme and in reconfiguring services for children in hospital.

6. 40 inpatient children (hospital 1) 21 inpatient children (hospital 2) 8 Members of a city youth parliament. PARTICIPANTS

7. Draw and write/tell technique conducted through a 2 arm study Coad and Evans (2007) have considered the methodological issues of gathering data from children and young people. Their review of the literature demonstrates that researchers should more actively consider the hows of involving children more fully in all components of the research process including the analysis of the data. METHODS

8. Description and analysis of those factors which inhibit or enhance childhood hospital admission, and those attributes which children believe nurses of the future should possess MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES

9. Children’s nurses of the future should have a range of : essential and fundamental skills in both verbal and non verbal communication fundamental Clinical Skills RESULTS

10. Issues related to a child about to be admitted to hospital included: Being scared frightened Worried upset, fear of the unknown RESULTS

11. issues related to a child after admission to hospital included: The environment of care, social needs individual/personal/ physical needs and requirements RESULTS

12. This patient and public involvement study has revealed a number of areas which children, young people and their families believe to be important for the future training of children’s nurses. Additionally the factors which children consider inhibit or enhance a hospital admission have been identified. CONCLUSIONS

13. Must tangibly demonstrate service user engagement and not rely on curricular input by proxy! The new programmes