Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Tissue expansion in burn reconstruction: what can the child and family expect?
A child with a burn injury often has to go through reconstructive surgery after it has...
11 May 2015
Parents’ experiences of their child’s admission to paediatric intensive care
Background Admission of a child to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be one of...
11 May 2015
Opportunistic health promotion among overweight children
Aim To explore children’s nurses’ attitudes to providing health promotion advice to...
10 Apr 2015
Training to raise staff awareness about safeguarding children
To improve outcomes for children and young people health organisations are required to train...
10 Apr 2015
A randomised controlled trial examining the effectiveness of cartoons as a distraction...
Aim Distress and pain associated with immunisation are significant problems for children,...
10 Apr 2015
To stay or not to stay: children’s nurses’ experiences of parental presence during...
Aim To examine the perspectives of children’s nurses about parental presence during...
10 Apr 2015
Hub and spoke model for nursing student placements in the UK
The quality of clinical placements is an important factor in nurse education and depends,...
11 Mar 2015
Understanding the pathophysiology behind febrile convulsions
The most common background to hyperpyrexia and convulsions is immaturity of the child’s...
11 Mar 2015
Factors that affect adolescents’ adherence to diabetes treatment
There is strong evidence suggesting young people with type 1 diabetes experience...
11 Feb 2015
Parent-professional collaboration when a child presents with potential shunt malfunction
Aims To explore parents’ involvement in the care of their child’s hydrocephalus and the ways...
11 Feb 2015
Every nurse has a duty to make every contact count
Make Every Contact Count is a public health strategy and not entirely a new idea in nursing...
09 Dec 2014
Treating feverish illness in children aged under five years
Fever is the most likely reason for a child to be taken to the doctor and, occasionally, the...
09 Dec 2014
Open access
Vulnerability and risk in children living with a physical disability
Children are identified as a vulnerable group in need of a degree of safeguarding. About 6%...
09 Dec 2014
Blended food for enteral feeding via a gastrostomy
A blended diet for enteral nutrition is defined as home-made everyday food blended to a...
04 Nov 2014
Nurses’ knowledge about the double-checking process for medicines administration
This study aimed to evaluate nurses’ knowledge, perceptions and opinions of double-checking...
04 Nov 2014
Intensive care of children with burn injuries and the role of the multidisciplinary team
Trauma from burns and scalds in children is more common and more damaging than in adults,...
04 Nov 2014
Evaluating a specialist nurse’s role in a general paediatric surgical team
A surgical care practitioner (SCP) is a registered nurse or allied health professional who,...
07 Oct 2014
Understanding the effect of miliary tuberculosis through the experience of one young...
In the UK, tuberculosis (TB) is on the increase. Miliary TB affects the lungs and can leave...
07 Oct 2014