Being a parent helps me in children’s nursing
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Being a parent helps me in children’s nursing

Chris Steele Third-year children’s nursing student, Edge Hill University, Lancashire

Chris Steele on how his personal experiences are used to enhance his caregiving

When I tell people who know me as a father that I want to become a children’s nurse, they say: ‘That will be too emotionally difficult.’

Nursing Children and Young People. 31, 2, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.31.2.11.s11

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