Conclusion and clinical implications.
Having to endure NRMP can be experienced by children in many different ways, and nurses must be sensitive and listen to each individual child and as far as possible help those children cope with these procedures. Consequently, the nurses need to be responsive so that they are able to balance what they do and say in their attempt to reach the child's lifeworld, with the aim of being supportive. This includes meeting the child in their world which best can be done by a number of supportive actions, in which the cornerstone is parental participation and conversation. Being responsive to the child's experience, age, and development are additional aspects that need to be considered. This is based on the nurses’ professionalism and expertise in meeting the child in his/her own world. In the professionalism there is also the requirement that NRMP must be performed and that nurses somehow work within “a given framework” that sets the limit for the action. Being supportive during NRMP thus means that the nurses must see each child and thus decide on supportive actions and at the same time balance their responsibility for the completion of the procedure. For that to happen, the work can be described as “balancing on a tightrope” in an unpredictable situation.