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Need 1</strong> - Students need to understand the specific challenges of working with children, from birth to sixteen, and working with their families.
Opening Thoughts: Protecting, Promoting, Sustaining and Enhancing Children's Potential
Opening Thoughts: Protecting, Promoting, Sustaining and Enhancing Children's Potential
Children are our future, numbering over 2.2 billion worldwide (aged 0–19) and representing boundless potential. (World Health Organization 2010: 1)
Figure I.1 Rosie's Ners (Nurse)
Nurses who care for, support, advocate, educate, collaborate with and comfort children and young people know that children are our future. Children and young people are at the centre of what we do, how we think and how we act. Nurses working with children and young people aim to promote their health, sustain their well-being, prevent ill health and provide compassionate care when they are sick or injured. Regardless of where these nurses are working – in acute, primary or tertiary settings, in the ...
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