Anne Casey, FRCN is a New Zealand-trained

nurse Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health c ...

based in England, who developed Casey's model of nursing. In October 2002 Casey was made a Fellow of the

Royal College of Nursing The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a registered trade union in the United Kingdom for those in the profession of nursing. It was founded in 1916, receiving its royal charter in 1928. Queen Elizabeth II was the patron until her death in 2022. ...

for her services to paediatric nursing.

Casey's Model of Nursing

Casey's Model of Nursing was developed in 1988 by Casey whilst working on the Paediatric Oncology Unit at the

Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. The focus of the model is on working in

partnership A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as business partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests. The partners in a partnership may be individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments o ...

with children and their families, and was one of the earliest attempts to develop a model of practice specifically for child health nursing. The

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the Plan_(drawing), plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a mea ...

has been developed in other areas of

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

to focus upon local aspects of practice. It comprises the five concepts of child, family, health, environment and the

. The philosophy behind the model is that the best people to care for the child is the family with help from various professional staff. Another paediatric nursing model developed by Smith in "Children's nursing in practice: The Nottingham Model" emphasizes the family as client; but Casey's Model sees the child as the client.

References

Sources

* Casey A. The development and use of the partnership model of nursing care In: Glasper EA, Tucker A (eds) (1993) Advances in Child Health Nursing. London, Scutari Press; 1993. * Smith, F. (1995). Children's nursing in practice: The Nottingham model. Oxford: Blackwell Science {{DEFAULTSORT:Casey, Anne British nurses British science writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Royal College of Nursing