OVERVIEW
Community Children’s Nurses (CCN’S) are registered paediatric nurses who provide care to children in a community setting. The CCN’s work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary team’s in order to provide safe and competent care whilst minimising disruptions to the child and families everyday life.
Where We Work
The Grampian CCN team is based in the lower ground floor at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and the Moray CCN is based in Dr Grays hospital.
Our service operates Monday to Friday 8.30am until 5pm (excluding public holidays) and covers NHS Grampian and Moray.
What We Offer
CCN teams across Scotland differ in the roles they undertake and the care they provide will often vary slightly. In Grampian and Moray the children’s nursing role is a non-emergent service very similar to that of a district nurse whereby we:
- Provide planned direct nursing care to acutely and chronically ill children in the community thus minimising hospitalisation where appropriate
- Enable and empower parents to look after their child in the most suitable environment with our support
- Provide support alongside colleagues for those who are palliative or at end of life
We provide the following care in the communities we support:
- Wound Care
- Injections
- Blood letting (venepuncture, finger/heel pricks, CVL’s)
- Sample Requests (stool, urine, swabs)
- CVL care
- Port Flushing
- IV anti-biotics at home
- Stoma Care
- Enteral care (PEGS, Gastrostomy buttons, NG tubes etc)
- Advanced Bowel Management
- Colonic Transit study support
- Palliative support
- End of life care
- Weight/Height Checks
- Basic observations (Blood pressure, saturations, heart rate, temperature)
- Medication administration
- Patient specific training and education
REFERRALS
Referrals are only accepted from health care professionals. Patients/families cannot self-refer to our service.
The reason for this is because the CCN team cover all medical and surgical specialities and therefore do not have a designated doctor or allied health professional specifically attached to the service.
A doctor or allied health professional is required to request and review samples (bloods, swabs, scans etc), prescribe treatment and medications if necessary and also to escalate nursing concerns to.
If you feel your child would be eligible for CCN review please approach your health visitor, school nurse, GP or hospital team who will be able to advise if your child meets the criteria and who can then make a referral.
Colleagues from within NHS Grampian can find an online referral form on the NHS Grampian intranet. Professionals from outside NHS Grampian wishing to refer a child should contact the team on the number below.
How to contact us
Community Children’s Nursing Team
Lower Ground Floor
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital
Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZG
Telephone: 01224 551829
EMAIL: gram.ccns@nhs.scot
(please leave a message if calling outwith service working hours – messages are checked regularly and responded to on a priority basis; responses may not always be the same day so please do not leave messsages of an urgent nature.
