Children’s nursing: the long road to professional recognition
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Children’s nursing: the long road to professional recognition

Daniel Allen Health journalist

More than a century after the first children’s nurse was registered, senior figures in the specialty fear that progress in its development has stalled

The fight to get children’s nursing established, and subsequent debates over the ‘correct’ route to becoming a specialist children’s nurse, have been controversial topics over the years.

Nursing Children and Young People. 35, 3, 6-8. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.35.3.6.s2

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