Nursing

At Duke Children's, our nursing care program emphasizes collaboration, continuity, planning and education. As part of our professional practice environment, we assign a primary nurse or primary nurse team to each patient to coordinate his or her care throughout the entire stay at Duke Children's. In addition, every nurse works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure each and every patient gets effective, compassionate, family-centered care.

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Treatments

Nurses at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center:

• Provide the highest quality family-centered care.
• Measurably improve children's health through appropriate nursing interventions and education within the inpatient and ambulatory settings of Duke Children's and the surrounding communities.
• Contribute to the development of pediatric nurses as leaders.
• Promote nursing practice that is evidence-based and knowledge-driven through research.

Family-centered care

Family-centered care, which is the cornerstone of our nursing philosphy, is a dynamic process that synthesizes the scientific, physical, intellectual, emotional, ethical, spiritual and social aspects of caring. Nurses are often the care providers who have the most interaction with patients and families, and directly influence patient care as they support and respond to the diverse needs of patients and their families with compassion, skill and understanding. We encourage family participation in care and acknowledge the family's expertise regarding the needs and concerns of the patient.

Working as a team at Duke Children's

The delivery of nursing care at Children's emphasizes continuity, accountability, planning, education and support for patients and families. To achieve excellence, our nurse practitioners and registered nurses work in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team to provide, coordinate and evaluate health care for patients and families.

Our areas of specialty include:

Ambulatory Clinic Care
Cardiac Operating Room
Cardiovascular
Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit
Critical Care
Critical Care Transport
Day Surgery
Emergency Medicine
General Clinical Research
General Surgery-Orthopaedic Unit
Hematology/Oncology
Infant-Toddler Surgical Unit
Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Medicine
Neonatal Intenstive Care Unit
Neurosciences
Nursing and Patient Services
Operating Room
Perioperative
Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Preoperative Clinic
Psychiatry
Radiology
Surgical
Surgical-Solid Organ Transplant
Urodynamics

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Clinic Hours and Location

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