Specialist Community Paediatric Nursing
The Specialist Community Paediatric Nursing team within Skylark provides holistic family centred care and support for the children and young person aged 0-19 years.
Care is delivered when a child or young person require assistance, when a child or young person has a nursing care need or when a primary carer requires support with nursing care with respect to the child or young person. The care can then be provided in a variety of areas, including educational settings nursery or within the child or young persons home.
Specialist Children's Nurses work with children or young people
- who have:
- Acute and short term conditions
- Long term conditions
- Complex and exceptional conditions, including those requiring continuing care
- Life limiting and life threatening illnesses, including those requiring palliative and end of life care
- Neuro-disability
- or require
- Health Assessment as part of CMA or LAC process
The Specialist Community Paediatric Nursing service are provided as part of the Disability or Vulnerability Pathway or as uni-professional staged care journey.