The Care Through Family model is a research-based approach to strengthening partnerships between nurses and family caregivers. Mothers are an important resource for hospitalised children in Africa. Many nurses know this and organise nursing care accordingly. This project worked with nurses to describe and document their practice to create an African model of nursing care for hospitalised children.

Read more about the project here.

We have also published two open access articles describing the research that underpins the model. 

North N, Leonard A, Bonaconsa C, Duma T, Coetzee M. (2020). Distinctive nursing practices in working with mothers to care for hospitalised children at a district hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a descriptive observational study. BMC Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00421-1

North N, Sieberhagen S, Bonaconsa C, Leonard A, Coetzee M. (2019). Making children’s nursing practices visible: using visual and participatory techniques to describe family involvement in the care of hospitalised children in southern African settings. International Journal of Qualitative Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919849324