Paediatric Care
At nursing direct our focus is to provide first class paediatric services to children with complex needs – and their families – offering domiciliary care, helping them to maximise their independence, well-being and quality of life. The conditions of paediatric clients we support include acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury as well as cerebral palsy and other disabling conditions.
Our complex paediatric health care is structured around the standard for disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs, which forms part of the government’s National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Service.
This says that children and young people who are disabled or who have complex health needs should receive:
“Co-ordinated, high quality child and family-centred services, which are based on assessed needs, which promote social inclusion and, where possible, which enable them and their families to live ordinary lives.”
Our paediatric service identifies all the needs of a child with complex health care needs and puts in place a care package tailored to their and their family’s needs and that respects their dignity and choices. Care packages are delivered by personal assistants, who undergo comprehensive training, led by an experienced paediatric nurse, prior to providing one-to-one care with ongoing supervision and support from experienced paediatric nurses.
Our personal assistants are skilled in delivering support, including ventilator care and respiratory management, gastronomy management and naso-gastric feeding, to children with the most complex needs.
Alongside this complex care, we recognise and respect the child as an individual and as part of a larger family picture and enabling the family lifestyle appropriate to all those involved is a key part of the care we provide.
Our care provision reflects best practice and we work with other health and educational professionals to support children and young people with complex health needs towards full integration into their community and to achieve their full potential.
