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Obesity is one of the biggest challenges facing UK children’s nurses today.
On children’s wards, restraint appears to be used often, rather than as a last resort, to assist the delivery of clinical procedures.
In childhood, burn or scald injuries are comparatively common, and the greatest risk is to infants and toddlers.
Aim To evaluate the impact of a structured pain education programme on pre-registration children’s nursing students’ knowledge of and attitudes
This literature review focuses on risk factors that influence somatic symptoms in children and young people aged between one and 18 years.
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common rheumatic disease in children and young people.
The practicalities of obtaining technically acceptable spirometry results with children and young people demand a protocol that follows national guidance an
Aim To investigate the impact of caring for a parent on the psychosocial development of the young person.
Endoscopic placement of a gastrostomy is the safest method of inserting a gastrostomy in children who are going to require full or supplemental enteral feed
Aim To examine how children in hospital perceive their meetings with clowns.
Vaccination programmes are implemented either in response to a specific situation, or as new vaccines become available or evidence about them accumulates.
The nursing care of a six year old with type 1 diabetes reveals the importance of accurate control of the condition for normal physical, emotional and cogni
Aims To determine the effect of nasogastric (NG) feeding compared with oral feeding on morphine requirements after primary cleft palate repair, and secondarily on enteral intake.
Aims To elicit the views of children’s nurses with regard to the personal, contextual and interprofessional challenges faced when delivering palliative and end of life care to children and young people in the community.
Aim To observe and report rates of, and reasons for, parents’ refusal to consent to the participation of their children in appropriate clinical research.
Aims To explore the experience of younger students of children’s nursing when required to care for clients of similar age in hospital, and their concerns in relation to professional boundaries.
There has been little research into Australian Indigenous families’ use of a tertiary paediatric hospital in Western Australia.
Storytelling is a useful relationship-building tool to use with children, as demonstrated by the work of ‘Johnny’ and the author, his nurse.
