Working as a Community Children’s Nurse

Kim, Senior Children’s Community Nurse and Queens Nurse said, “I love the opportunity to work really closely with children and their families. I feel really privileged to be able to support these families both with their physical and emotional needs.

I have been nursing for 20 plus years and nine of these years I have been working for the Community Children’s nursing team. It’s an absolutely amazing job.”

Did you know that our fantastic Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) team helps children and young people across Devon (excluding Plymouth) with a wide range of complex health conditions that require expert and specific nursing advice and support.

Difficulties may include: 

• complex breathing/airway difficulties including long term ventilation
• neurodegenerative disability 
• enteral feeding 
• complex continence problems requiring clinical interventions
• oxygen dependence
• complex wound care
• palliative care and symptom management at end of life
• complex phlebotomy and administration of injectable medication
• long term complex conditions such as cardiac, renal or liver disease, including a child or young person dependent on technology to meet their health needs
• caregivers requiring clinical training to meet an individual child or young person’s needs