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Key objectives
- Provide direct nursing care to children at home, thus minimising hospitalisation where appropriate;
- Provide child specific advice within educational or residential facilities;
- Teach parents, teachers and other carers to provide care and treatment to specific children through a comprehensive competency framework;
- Monitor a child’s progress and liaise with medical and other allied heal
FNP is a voluntary preventive programme for teenage mothers. FNP offers intensive and structured home visiting, delivered by specially trained ‘family nurses’, from early pregnancy until the child is two. The aim of FNP is to improve the health and wellbeing of our most disadvantaged families and children, and to prevent social exclusion.
