•Children's Nurses

•Children's Nurses

1. What does this person do?

   • • Children's nurses plan and provide holistic nursing care to children affected by a wide variety of illnesses and medical conditions.

2. Typical responsibilities

   • • Taking samples from patients and monitoring their pulse, temperature and blood pressure. • Supervising junior staff. • Assessing and planning nursing care requirements. •Providing care before and after operations. • Monitoring and administering medication, injections and intravenous infusions.

3. Who does employ them?

   • Children's nurses are employed by hospitals, NHS trusts, nursing agencies, health centres, charities/voluntary organisations, schools, private health care organisations, GP practices and residential homes.

4. Qualifications- training required

   • The main route into qualifying as a nurse is to take a nursing degree. Nursing degree courses provide a mix of formal teaching and practical experience.

5. Key skills for this job

   • Children do not necessarily have a well-developed ability to express how they are feeling, so it is essential for children's nurses to have particularly acute powers of observation and to be highly responsive to any signs that a child's health has taken a turn for the worse.

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