| Title: | Standards for hospital facilities for children in the Republic of Ireland |
| Authors: | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Faculty of Paediatrics |
| Publisher: | Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) |
| Issue Date: | Jun-1991 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247738 |
| Type: | Report |
| Language: | en |
| Description: | Children should only come to hospital when it is really necessary. When
children attend hospital, the care and facilities available should be the best
that can be provided. Associated with the medical advances in recent
decades, increasing numbers of children are admitted to hospital or
investigated at out-patients each year. Hospital facilities for children have
evolved over the last 50 years usually (with the exception of the children's
hospitals) in association with general hospitals dealing mainly with adult
patients. As a result, the special needs of children in hospital have sometimes
not been appreciated and provided for. As the specialty of paediatrics has
developed, it has been increasingly recognised that the care of the child in
hospital must encompass the needs of the whole child and not just treatment
of the presenting illness.
The aim of this document is to briefly outline modem standards for hospital
facilities for children with emphasis on the provision of all hospital care for
children in a children's hospital or a comprehensive children's department of
a general hospital supervised by appropriately trained and experienced staff. |
| Keywords: | PAEDIATRIC HOSPITALS
STANDARDS |
| Appears in Collections: | Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI)
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