Adaptation and negotiation as an approach to care in paediatric diabetes specialist nursing practice: a critical review

Considerable attention has been given to diabetes care in children. However, nursing practice may be guided by biomedical models.

• Diabetes care in children should focus on family-centred approaches arguably based in the community.

• Psychosocial constructs have an important role in the development of self-management of chronic illness in children.

• Paediatric diabetes nurse specialists are pivotal in facilitating family-centred care based on personal models of child and family interventions