The role of the children’s nurse in optimising autonomic regulation: the Regul8 framework

Abstract

The Regul8 framework represents an approach to providing fundamental children’s nursing care developed by Associate Professor Minette Coetzee at the Child Nursing Practice Development Initiative (CNPDI) in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town between 2008 and 2019. Originally known as the Seven Steps, and then the Seven (Plus One) Steps, the impetus for the work was to align emerging understandings and research outcomes with current children’s nursing practice. Concepts were developed through continuous exploration of emerging scientific fields and refined through a decade of teaching and learning alongside children’s nursing students, practitioners and educators from across Africa. The framework is designed to comprehensively address the major influences on regulatory function through an intentionally Afrocentric guide to children’s nursing care planning.