Children's Palliative Nursing Care

Dr Duncan Randall has over twenty years of experience in delivering, researching and teaching children's palliative nursing. He has worked on projects such as the Spectrum of Children's Palliative Care, the Involve to Evolve database project, founding the first data group on children’s palliative care in the UK. He has also worked extensively with the Children’s Palliative Care Education and Training Action Group (CPCET) on the Standards for Education and the Standards for Advanced Care Planning. Duncan has an extensive publication history including his theoretical work using Pragmatics to set out a theory of children’s nursing for children and their childhoods. Dr Sue Nilson has over thirty years’ experience in children's palliative nursing care, research and teaching. She is a qualitative methodologist and supervises research students. Sue teaches across undergraduate and post-graduate programmes and also leads interprofessional palliative care workshops. Her recent work focuses on education, working with the Children’s Palliative Care Education and Training Action Group and Young Person’s Advance Care Plan Collaborative on the Education Standard Framework and Standard Framework for Advanced Care Planning. Sue’s work is focused on the use of drama in teaching communication around end of life. Professor Julia Downing is an experienced palliative care nurse, educationalist and researcher. She is the Chief Executive of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) and Professor at universities in Uganda, Serbia and the UK. She has extensive experience in Global palliative care, research and education, and is on the editorial board of eCancer, APM and the IJPN. She has worked within palliative care for more than 30 years, with more than twenty of those working internationally in Uganda, Africa, Eastern Europe and globally. She serves on the boards of several international organisations, is regularly invited to speak at conferences and has an extensive publication history on global palliative care and nursing.

Introduction and categorisation of children’s palliative care needs and prevalence

Section 1: Public Health and Universal

1. Building and sustaining compassionate communities with children.

2. Beliefs, attitudes and values in children’s palliative care.

3. Public perceptions and participation in children’s palliative care: promoting positive cultures of communication.

Section 2: Core

4. Delivery of unwanted news: diagnosis and assessment of needs.

5. Self-care for nurses and nursing teams delivering and evaluating palliative care.

6. Play, education and children and carer coping living with palliative care needs.

7. Symptom management

8. End-of-life care and bereavement

Section 3 Specialist

9. Managing complexity.

10. Learning to design, deliver and evaluate children’s palliative care education.

11. Leadership for improvement.

12. Evaluation and quality of care issues.

13. Research readiness, and leadership.

Appendix A: Table of LO for CPCET UK and Ireland Education Standard Framework (including mapping to chapters)

Appendix B: GoPaPAS Standards