title: Assistant practitioners: their role with children in secondary care.
abstract: Assistant practitioners (APs) can help to address a variety of locally or nationally recognised deficits in healthcare services to children and their families. However, as well as training and supervision, APs should have formal registration, and the role should be continuously appraised as it develops. The ways in which APs can support clinical nursing teams in delivering secondary health care to children, young people and their families is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent. claire.thurgate@canterbury.ac.uk
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thurgate
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacGregor
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009728:Nursing Assistants; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D024382:Professional Role; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce