Purpose and objectives

Purpose

To be a powerful voice for the unique and complex needs of children, young people and families within children's critical care services
To lead and advance practice within children's critical care
To influence and advise various professional bodies and organisations through a unified and expert voice
To ensure effective implementation and monitoring of national standards for children's critical care
To provide support, expertise and coaching to all community members

Objectives

Potential project bid

Skin integrity in the critically ill child – a potential multi-centre trial examining the validity of existing paediatric assessment tools and developing an appropriate tool for this high risk population. Establishing an integrated approach to skin integrity management for critically ill children

Objectives 2009-2010

Re-establish terms of reference, roles and responsibilities
Identify potential publications to raise awareness of the purpose and role of the community that identifies the purpose of the community e.g. how the community has influenced workforce planning
Identify and train a minimum of two on-line leads
Implement online communication strategy (see above)
Identify possible communities to engage with on project work