Stop trying to dilute field-specific training in children’s nursing
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Stop trying to dilute field-specific training in children’s nursing

Debbie Fallon Chair, Children and Young People’s Nurse Academics UK

In their Nursing Children and Young People opinion article Children’s nursing: is it time to rethink field-specific training? (see March issue), Edward Purssell and Rohit Sagoo invited us to ‘rethink’ field-specific training. They argue that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed children’s nurses as ill-equipped to care for adult patients, and that neither adult nor children’s nurses are ‘trained’ to care for those aged 16-24 years.

Nursing Children and Young People. 35, 3, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.35.3.5.s1

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