Professional relationships: CCN's and primary care nurses

Abstract

■ Children's community nursing is a relatively new service to provide nursing care to children in the community.

■ Collaboration between new services and established community services is necessary to ensure children receive care from the most appropriate service.

■ The views of health visitors, school nurses, district nurses and children's community nurses were sought to provide insight into collaborative processes.

■ Focus groups were used to obtain participants' views of professional relationships.

■ Each professional group viewed their relationship with the children's community service through the context of their own service.

■ Expectations of children's community nurses by professionals were different for each professional group.