28th International Conference on Pediatric Nursing and Healthcare September 04-05, 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland

Biography:

Bonnie Garner integrates pediatric education and holistic healthcare practice for children and families in our community and internationally. She designs partnerships to promote and facilitate pediatric health. She currently demonstrates collaborative teamwork at MAHEC. In this community health education setting, she provides healthcare education, clinical practice consultation and advocacy for community childcare staff and families. Since teaching Pediatrics at Western Carolina University, her passion for global nursing leadership continues to connect nursing students of North Carolina University with nursing colleagues of UK universities. She has presented her work in Canada, Ireland, Scotland and the US.

Abstract:

Statement of the Problem: The currently controversial healthcare reform in America impacts lifelong consequences for young children with special health needs. Increasing numbers of young children in community early education/childcare programs require expert pediatric nursing. How will we provide safe, evidence-based pediatric nursing within developmentally enriched learning environments as economic and human resources dwindle? Will we expend our efforts and commitment to promote healthy childhood futures instead of repairing of multiple health consequences? Research informs us of the advantage of pediatric practice investments at the earliest possible stages of child development.

Methodology: Single system design, integrated, clinical collaborative experiences based on current research support for pediatric nursing practice and child development.

Session format: Case study presentation of an on-going consultative practice with a family of a two year old male with type I diabetes in the community early learning setting. This case study approach will introduce the challenges, along with the successes of the community healthcare partnerships while providing the learner with lively discussion of creative ideas, strategies, and sustainable solutions.

Findings: This unfolding case study provides an engaging format for learners to explore the challenges, barriers and potential solutions in an active learning session.

Conclusions & Significance: This is a unique opportunity to educate families in healthy life style choices, nutrition, and medical care consistency for the prevention of future disease/condition consequences within the first three years of life. Skills are introduced for early learning educators to provide safe monitoring and nursing supported interventions within nurturing, normative learning environments of community based childcare. Investments of healthcare resources, pediatric nursing practices, and community learning partnerships provide the foundation for solid, sustainable health outcomes for our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. We have afforded the chance to now make our values a reality; one child, one family, one community at a crucial time.

Biography:

Laura Serrant is a Professor of Nursing at Sheffield Hallam University and a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar. She has over 30 years of national and international experience in Healthcare and her research interests relate to community and public health. She has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queens Nursing Institute. In 2014, she was recognized by a UK leading Health Service Journal as being in the top 50 in three separate national categories: Inspirational Women in Healthcare; BME Pioneers and; Clinical Leader awards.

Abstract:

The UN development goals recognize that our health, life chances and wellbeing as human beings are often affected by or impacted on by our experiences and the differing contexts in which we live our lives. Many of these experiences are bound up with our identities, environments and social situations in which we live as individuals or members of a community. Nurses are often at the forefront of supporting children and families to manage their lives and health within increasingly diverse societies in the face of resource constraints both human and financial. Policy, practice and research drivers around cultural competence and nursing practice focus on meeting the needs of patients, children and families. However, this often occurs without input from children themselves or recognizing the complexities faced by a profession often seen as having not more than a caring role, secondary to the scientific endeavours of medicine. As a result, the needs and contributions of the nursing profession are rendered at best solely responsive and at worse invisible - and in the silent spaces between patients/family needs and workforce responsibilities, society often fails to acknowledge the importance of nursing leadership as the catalyst to deliver the high quality, equitable and culturally competent care that children and families deserve. This presentation uses personal and professional reflections to highlight the importance of culturally competent and compassionate nursing leadership in health care. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced at an individual and professional level. It looks back at nursing history and forward towards championing the science and art of nursing, making a case for centralizing these in our quest to improve the health and life-chances of children and future generations.

Biography:

Laura Serrant is a Professor of Nursing at Sheffield Hallam University and a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar. She has over 30 years of national and international experience in Healthcare and her research interests relate to community and public health. She has been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse by the Queens Nursing Institute. In 2014, she was recognized by a UK leading Health Service Journal as being in the top 50 in three separate national categories: Inspirational Women in Healthcare; BME Pioneers and; Clinical Leader awards.

Abstract:

The UN development goals recognize that our health, life chances and wellbeing as human beings are often affected by or impacted on by our experiences and the differing contexts in which we live our lives. Many of these experiences are bound up with our identities, environments and social situations in which we live as individuals or members of a community. Nurses are often at the forefront of supporting children and families to manage their lives and health within increasingly diverse societies in the face of resource constraints both human and financial. Policy, practice and research drivers around cultural competence and nursing practice focus on meeting the needs of patients, children and families. However, this often occurs without input from children themselves or recognizing the complexities faced by a profession often seen as having not more than a caring role, secondary to the scientific endeavours of medicine. As a result, the needs and contributions of the nursing profession are rendered at best solely responsive and at worse invisible - and in the silent spaces between patients/family needs and workforce responsibilities, society often fails to acknowledge the importance of nursing leadership as the catalyst to deliver the high quality, equitable and culturally competent care that children and families deserve. This presentation uses personal and professional reflections to highlight the importance of culturally competent and compassionate nursing leadership in health care. It explores the challenges and opportunities faced at an individual and professional level. It looks back at nursing history and forward towards championing the science and art of nursing, making a case for centralizing these in our quest to improve the health and life-chances of children and future generations.