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Touchpoints: changing the face of pediatric nurse practitioner education

Melanie S Percy1, Ann Stadtler, Dolores Sands

  • 1Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Concentration, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, 1700 Red River, Austin, TX 78701, USA. mpercy@mail.utexas.edu

MCN. the American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
|July 20, 2002
PubMed

Touchpoints is an interdisciplinary relational model of healthcare primarily used with parents and young children. The underlying premise of the Touchpoints approach is to support the parent/child relationship during the health encounter by enhancing parents' efforts to optimize their child's physical and psychological development. Nurse practitioners who use this approach in practice find they are able to connect quickly to the parents' most urgent concerns for their child. Our experience has been that a pediatric nurse practitioner program that uses Touchpoints as the underlying framework can assist students in achieving a holistic view of families by focusing the curriculum more directly on development and relationships. Students learn that building a relationship with parents, and joining them in the care of their child, produces an atmosphere in the health encounter of mutual respect and trust. Parents leave the encounter feeling satisfied their concern for their child has been heard and questions have been seriously discussed; students leave feeling competent and valued by their patients. Touchpoints provides a model for teaching and demonstrating the development of interpersonal relationships by using the language of the child's behavior.

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