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Call for nominations for Honorary Fellowships of the ABPN
Following the award of Honorary Fellows at our last Annual General Meeting, the Association is seeking nominations for individuals to be awarded Honorary Fellowship of the ABPN in 2024.
There are two categories of Honorary Fellow:
For more information download our Call for Nominations document and our Fellowship Nomination Form.
Please direct any enquiries to Robin Hyde, Honorary Secretary
Following the award of Honorary Fellows at our last Annual General Meeting, the Association is seeking nominations for individuals to be awarded Honorary Fellowship of the ABPN in 2024.
There are two categories of Honorary Fellow:
- Individuals from the UK and elsewhere, who are not members of the ABPN can be nominated in recognition of their experience, achievements, dedication, and outstanding contributions to the care of children and young people. This can reflect contributions through practice, leadership, education, research and other areas.
- Individuals, who are members of the ABPN, can be nominated to reflect their long and valuable service to the Association.
For more information download our Call for Nominations document and our Fellowship Nomination Form.
Please direct any enquiries to Robin Hyde, Honorary Secretary
ABPN Honorary Fellow Webinar Series
We’re delighted to announce the first in our series of Honorary Fellow webinars.
Global, regional and local issues: opportunities for children's nurses
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We’re delighted to announce the first in our series of Honorary Fellow webinars.
Global, regional and local issues: opportunities for children's nurses
- Date and time: Date in early 2024, to be announced, so please watch this space.
- Presenter: Fiona Smith, RNC, RNA, Dip in Nursing Studies, BA Health Studies, Masters in Business Admin (Health)
- Summary of webinar presentation: Fiona will be talking about some of the global, European and UK perspectives of the issues facing children and young people today. She will address some of the opportunities that children’s nurses, either individually or collectively can take to tackle and influence services and outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- Weblink to be announced soon!
- Fiona was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the ABPN in 2023.
- Fiona retired from her role as Professional Lead for Children and Young People’s Nursing at the RCN in 2021.
- She is currently volunteering locally, acting as adviser for professional nursing associations overseas, and presents at conferences internationally.
- Fiona is an Honorary Fellow Association of British Paediatric Nurses, Honorary Fellow Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health, and Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Nursing.
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85th Anniversary Tea Party celebrations
The Anniversary Tea Party on the 27th April 2023 was a great success creating an opportunity for guests from Scotland, Wales and England to share in our celebrations of 85 years of the ABPN advocating for children’s nursing education and children’s nursing. Our guests included local dignitaries, members and ex-Officers of the Association. We were delighted to appoint eight Honorary Fellows. We thank Kyowa Kirin for their sponsorship of the event.
We are delighted to be able to share a short movie of the event.
You can read the Presidential Address (Prof Bernie Carter) and the Chair's Address (Caron Eyre).
The Anniversary Tea Party on the 27th April 2023 was a great success creating an opportunity for guests from Scotland, Wales and England to share in our celebrations of 85 years of the ABPN advocating for children’s nursing education and children’s nursing. Our guests included local dignitaries, members and ex-Officers of the Association. We were delighted to appoint eight Honorary Fellows. We thank Kyowa Kirin for their sponsorship of the event.
We are delighted to be able to share a short movie of the event.
You can read the Presidential Address (Prof Bernie Carter) and the Chair's Address (Caron Eyre).
ABPN Press Releases (Archive)
ABPN Press Release: 24th March 2023
Defending the value of field-specific pre-registration training for children’s nurses. abpn_press_statement_value_of_pre-reg_field-specifc_child_training-final.pdf
ABPN Press release: Chair of ABPN 22nd April 2022
For information about Caron Caron Eyre's appointment, please click the link https://bwc.nhs.uk/news/caron-eyre-director-of-nursing-quality-governance-elected-chair-of-the-association-of-british-paediatric-nurses-4614/
ABPN Press release: Ukraine 1st March 2022
For information about the ABPN's statement on Ukraine, please click the link: ukraine_statement-abpn_press_release_1st_march_2022.pdf
ABPN Press Release: 24th March 2023
Defending the value of field-specific pre-registration training for children’s nurses. abpn_press_statement_value_of_pre-reg_field-specifc_child_training-final.pdf
ABPN Press release: Chair of ABPN 22nd April 2022
For information about Caron Caron Eyre's appointment, please click the link https://bwc.nhs.uk/news/caron-eyre-director-of-nursing-quality-governance-elected-chair-of-the-association-of-british-paediatric-nurses-4614/
ABPN Press release: Ukraine 1st March 2022
For information about the ABPN's statement on Ukraine, please click the link: ukraine_statement-abpn_press_release_1st_march_2022.pdf
Presidential News
Professor Bernie Carter was appointed President of the Association in March 2020. To read more ehu.ac.uk/5wx
Professor Bernie Carter was appointed President of the Association in March 2020. To read more ehu.ac.uk/5wx
Past activity
We were involved in undertaking a national survey of student nurses from across the UK who were currently studying to register as an RN (Child). This survey was linked to the Shape of Caring consultation and provided evidence to against the call for generic nurse training and the need for high quality education to specifically educate future nurses about caring for children, young people and their families.
The first paper published from this survey and associated work is:
Carter, B., Clarke, D., Crawford, D., Smith, F. (2015) Generic training will not prepare nurses of right calibre to care for children and families. Nursing Children and Young People. 27, 6, 8-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.27.6.8.s8 Open access
We were involved in undertaking a national survey of student nurses from across the UK who were currently studying to register as an RN (Child). This survey was linked to the Shape of Caring consultation and provided evidence to against the call for generic nurse training and the need for high quality education to specifically educate future nurses about caring for children, young people and their families.
The first paper published from this survey and associated work is:
Carter, B., Clarke, D., Crawford, D., Smith, F. (2015) Generic training will not prepare nurses of right calibre to care for children and families. Nursing Children and Young People. 27, 6, 8-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.27.6.8.s8 Open access
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