This Network is facilitated by Karen Hoare
 
Karen Hoare originally trained as an adult and children’s nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond St, London and Watford General Hospital. She qualified as a health visitor in 1985 (specialist community public health nurse). Karen’s training as a nurse practitioner occurred during a two year posting to the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit in The Gambia, West Africa where her research career was also launched. Her experience of living in The Gambia with some of the world’s poorest people galvanised her to become involved in international development; she was founder of the UK charity developmentDirect – her PhD topic is centred on how children conceptualise the millennium development goals.
Karen emigrated to New Zealand in November 2003 and spent 2004 working as a public health nurse. She currently works in the Goodfellow Unit, within the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care and the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland. Her role is to encourage more primary health care nurses to become interested in postgraduate education, research, publishing and general professional development. Karen is a member of Mark Jones’s expert advisory group for primary health care nursing.
During 2007 Karen developed three quizzes for the Goodfellow Club website which contribute to one hour of continuing professional development for nurses (see http://www.goodfellowclub.org). She runs a nurse-led children’s clinic on a Saturday morning.
What is it?
The Child Health Nursing Network was established due to the high number
of College members who had an interest in child health. Many members were
already active in the development and critique of policy, services and
practice in the area of child health. There was increasing concern regarding
the health of our children and a nursing voice was often absent within
the debate. The College recognised the need to develop a network that
invited anyone to participate regardless of discipline or College membership.
What can the network do?
* Support members who are developing policy and practice within the area
of child health by providing a network of child health nurses to whom
they can refer and share ideas.
* Provide a forum for debate and critique of child health practice and
policy.
* Develop a strategy for nursing within the area of child health.
* Providing a nursing voice within society and health care policy for
child health.
These are just some ideas!! It will be up to the network to determine
priorities and direction.
How will it operate?
Again the network participants will determine this but at least initially this
will probably make full use of electronic communications. As it develops
we may see the development of focus groups or face to face meetings, perhaps
during College conferences.
Who can participate?
Anyone who has an interest and passion for child health and child health
nursing - whether your focus is well child or sick child services.
Where to from here?
The success of this network depends on the motivation of its participants to
contribute. The role of the facilitator is to act as an
intermediary and disseminate information to all members.
How can I participate?
* Send in your ideas of what you would like from the network.
* Offer your talents and skills to assist with the development of the
network.
This is a great opportunity to support nurses and nursing in developing
a better health service for our children!!
Come and work with us!
Karen Hoare
E-mail:
k.hoare@auckland.ac.nz
c/- College of Nurses,
P O Box 1258,
Palmerston North.
Further Reading:
March 2009
National Diabetes Nursing Knowledge & Skills Framework
All nurses deliver to people with diabetes. The National Diabetes Nursing Knowledge and Skills Framework (NDNKSF) has been developed to assist all registered nurses to demonstrate that they are adequately prepared to provide the required care and education for the person with diabetes and related comorbidities, whatever their practice setting.
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