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Should paediatric patients be cared for by paediatric tissue viability nurses?

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Should paediatric patients be cared for by paediatric tissue viability nurses?

Claire Gardiner, Gilly Glendewar, Jacqui Fletcher, Leah Rutter
5 November 2021

Many children who are unwell are cared for in non-specialist hospitals or by generic community nursing teams. If they develop a wound that wound care may be directed by the local tissue viability nurse, who is probably an adult trained registered nurse will minimal exposure to or experience of caring for children. Does this matter? Are they just the same wounds but at a smaller scale?

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