• Nursing student roles and responsibilities
• Family-centered care
• Providing culturally competent care
• Module 1: Safety
• Module 2: Clinical Care
• Module 3: Emergency Procedures
• Module 4: Learning Resources
• Module 5: Post Test
• Placement Evaluation

• Hospital
• Nursing Student Orientation

Family-centered care

Families and health care professionals work together to plan, provide and evaluate care

Family-Centered Care is...

• Recognizing that the family is the constant in a child's life, while the service systems and personnel within those systems fluctuate.
• Facilitating child/family/professional collaboration at all levels of service.
• Sharing with the family, on a continuing basis and in a supportive manner, the best information regarding their child's health care.
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  Understanding and incorporating the developmental needs of infants, children, adolescents, and their families in health care delivery.
• Recognizing family strengths and individuality and respecting different methods of coping.
• Recognizing and honouring diversity, strengths and individuality within and across all families, including racial, spiritual, social, economic, educational and geographical diversity.
• Encouraging and facilitating family-to-family support and networking.
• Implementing comprehensive policies and programs that provide support to meet the diverse health care needs of families.
• Designing accessible service systems that are flexible, sensitive, and responsive to family-identified health care needs.
  

Reference: Johnson, B.H., Seale Jeppson, E. & Redburn, L. (1992). Caring for children and families: Guidelines for hospitals ( 1st ed.). Association for the Care of Children's Health, Bethesda, MD.