A review of children's nursing: but does it have a future?
With less than 35,000 registered children's nurses in the UK it is timely in the 10-year anniversary issue of the British Journal of Nursing to examine the progress of children's nursing. This article explores the ramifications of the outgoing UKCC's 'Fitness for Practice and Purpose' document (UKCC, 2001) and its legacy to the incoming Nursing and Midwifery Council. The argument as to whether preregistration nurse training should become generic with specialization occurring as a postregistration activity will be debated.
Glasper
Edward Alan
EA
Child Health Division, University of Southampton, UK.
D002648:Child; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000639:trends