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Co-producing a digital educational programme for registered children's nurses to improve care of children and young
Asam Latif1, Timothy Carter1, Lucy Rychwalska-Brown2
11 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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Registered children
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Nursing
- Mental Health Care
- Digital Health Education
Background:
- Increasing hospital admissions for self-harm in children and young people (CYP).
- Limited registered children's nurse (rCN) training and involvement of CYP in care improvement.
- Self-harm in CYP is a stigmatized patient group requiring sensitive care.
Purpose of the Study:
- To co-produce a digital educational program for rCNs using CYP experiences.
- To enhance nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in caring for CYP with self-harm injuries.
- To address the need for relevant, appropriate, and sensitive care for CYP who self-harm.
Main Methods:
- Participatory co-production approach involving CYP and rCNs.
- Priority-setting workshop with rCNs to identify educational needs.
- E-learning content development workshop with CYP with prior self-harm hospital admissions.
Main Results:
- Identified three key educational priorities for nurses: knowledge of self-harm, effective communication, and risk management.
- CYP co-developed content and design to ensure fidelity and relevance to their experiences.
- Demonstrated feasibility and importance of involving service users in educational resource development.
Conclusions:
- Co-production with CYP and rCNs is a feasible method for developing effective digital educational programs.
- Involving service users ensures educational content is relevant, appropriate, and sensitive.
- This approach can improve the quality of care for CYP experiencing self-harm in hospital settings.
Abstract:
Despite the increasing prevalence of hospital admissions for self-harm in children and young people (CYP), there is paucity of registered children's nurse (rCN) training or involvement of children to improve care for this often stigmatized patient group. This article describes a participatory approach towards using co-production with CYP and rCN to develop a digital educational programme to improve nurses' knowledge, attitudes and confidence in caring for CYP with self-harm injuries. A priority-setting workshop with rCNs was used to establish consensus of information needs. This was followed by an e-learning content development workshop undertaken with CYP whom had previously experienced hospital admissions for self-harm injuries. Findings from the nurse priority-setting workshop identified three educational priorities: (1) knowledge of self-harm, (2) effective communication and (3) risk management. The CYP subsequently developed these topic areas to ensure the contents and design of the e-learning resource had fidelity by reflecting the experiences of CYP and needs when cared for in hospital. This article illustrates that involving service users to co-develop educational materials is a feasible and important step in designing educational resources and ensures the content is relevant, appropriate and sensitive to both the recipient of care and those responsible for its delivery.