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School Nursing within an integrated, collaborative system
Section 3: School Nursing within an integrated, collaborative system
School Nurses work across many partnerships, collaborating with other professionals to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people . It is important to adopt a model that allows School Nurses to maintain their professional identity whilst working collaboratively with others .
A ‘hub and spoke’ model of delivery allows School Nurses and their teams to sit within a central hub whilst providing outreach to other services/teams in which the clinical knowledge and skills might be beneficial (Figure 8) .
The Hub allows School Nurses to maintain their professional identity whilst working collaboratively with others . Using this model School Nurses can access peer support and shared learning to enable the delivery of high quality, safe, person centred and cost-effective care .
Spokes allow allocation of time to other services/ teams; in a formalised manner this allows the School Nurse to be part of the ‘spoke’ team, building relationships and trust with other professionals .
There are examples in practice which illustrate the ‘hub and spoke’ model in action . For example, in Walsall, School Nurses and Nursery Nurses spend part of their week in Early Help hubs working alongside Early Help workers and Social Workers (Case study 3 appendix).
