Is nurse training too generic and lacking child-specific content?
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Is nurse training too generic and lacking child-specific content?

Erin Dean Health journalist

Less child-specific content is taught on children’s nursing programmes, with some concerned about a shift to more generic nurse training

Less child-specific content is being taught on preregistration children’s nursing programmes in recent years, according to researchers, sparking concern among senior figures in this field of practice.

Nursing Children and Young People. 36, 5, 8-9. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.36.5.8.s3

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