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Enhancing the care of children and young people with mental health issues
Children’s nurses require education and training in mental health to provide optimal care
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Children’s and learning disability nursing in Wales: no extra university places planned
Failure to expand fields’ student cohorts at odds with government’s NHS vision, says RCN
School nurses create video to help children understand puberty
A team of school nurses have made a video to help children understand changes they go through
Could you be the RCN Nurse of the Year in the year of the nurse?
Entries open for the RCNi Nurse Awards 2020, your chance to promote your work and specialty
Safeguarding partners: what children’s nurses need to know
How will the new safeguarding partners differ from local safeguarding children’s boards?
Curbing childhood obesity: investment in school nurses and health visitors is key – RCN
Public health warning as chief medical officer calls for snacking ban on public transport
Applications invited for new children's nursing research awards
Two awards on offer for a children's nurse and nursing student to present their research
Evidence and Practice
Family members’ perceptions of a Singing Medicine project in a children’s hospital
Children spending prolonged periods in hospital need to play and express themselves
Enhancing the care of children and young people with mental health issues
Children’s nurses require education and training in mental health to provide optimal care
Injection site assessment for lipohypertrophy in children with type 1 diabetes
It is vital that nurses understand the importance of injection site assessment
Does parental anxiety affect children’s perception of pain during intravenous...
Background Pain associated with invasive medical procedures is a significant cause of...
In the child’s best interests: should life be sustained when further treatment is...
Why you should read this article: • To understand that medical advances have meant that...
The implementation of family-witnessed resuscitation in children and young people
Exploring the evidence for and against the practice of family-witnessed resuscitation
Features
How a healthcare assistant made the operating theatre a less scary place for children
Award-winner Lisa Morgan's innovations help to ease the anxieties of children
Charity helps children’s transition to adult services
Specialist nurses funded by the Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity are helping to care for children with long-term conditions and smooth their transition to adult services
Nurse develops community oxygen-weaning guideline for neonates with chronic lung disease
Joanna Broderick’s award-winning work has improved safety and enhanced patient autonomy
Putting wheezy children on a pathway to better health
Nurses in North London have cut the number of children re-admitted with breathing problems
Sports charity uses social prescribing to help young people
A charity is using social prescribing to support vulnerable young people in the community
Reflecting on 30 years of change in children’s nursing
Since Nursing Children and Young People's launch there have been enormous advances
Opinion
Halt to funding for chest deformity surgery is a cruel blow
Specialist children's nurse says ending funding is wrong without further research
The case for integrated children’s continence services
Why children’s continence services should be integrated and community-based
Neonatal support plans fail the most vulnerable
Parents need more support when infants go into neonatal care, but new proposals fall short
Students
Is it time to make MMR vaccination compulsory?
Nurses need to counteract the anti-vaccination movement’s propaganda
Parents are the real professionals when it comes to their children
Good communication is vital in assessing paediatric early warning systems
Your first presentation: a nursing student’s guide to speaking at conferences
How presenting can help you develop critical thinking skills, plus tips for preparing
Careers
Meet the UK's first consultant nurse in paediatric electrophysiology and inherited...
Years ago Cath Renwick doubted her academic ability but now she leads on research and has a pioneering role
Sensitive diagnosis lessens parents’ upset over cystic fibrosis
How parents are told their child may have cystic fibrosis can affect their distress
What hope means for families of children with rare diseases in clinical trials
Does ‘hope’ help as a coping mechanism in clinical trials or give rise to misconceptions and possibly false hope?