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Accompanying children

07 March 1990

Nursing Standard

Supplement welfare of children

Many people find the prospect of general anaesthetic frightening, perhaps from a subconscious fear that they may not wake up. Anaesthetists have long recognised...

Emancipation of parents

21 February 1990

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint

The role of parents has been traditionally undermined with nurses taking over care completely during a child’s admission. The unhappy state of affairs did not...

Developing family information leaflets

11 March 1992

Nursing Standard

Clinical paediatrics

The authors offer advice on how to prepare information leaflets for the families of children admitted to paediatric units, and describe the successful implementation...

Write off sisters

24 February 1993

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint debate

Is it the end of the road for the ward sister? Is that enigmatic figure, beloved of generations, an anachronism? The same question applies to the charge nurse. In...

Dedicated children’s nurse dies

01 September 2004

Paediatric Nursing

News

Chris Baker a Welsh paediatric nurse has died after a short illness. Chris was an early member of the RCN Society of Paediatric Nursing and actively supported the...

The last word...

01 June 1994

Paediatric Nursing

News

Members of the Society of Paediatric Nursing and its special interest groups and forums attended this year’s RCN Congress at Bournemouth in force. The role of...

Implications for the future

26 May 1993

Nursing Standard

Feature legal issues

In the wake of the Beverley Allitt case, perhaps it is timely to consider the implications for all nurses involved in the care of children in tertiary, secondary and...

Preparing children for admission

01 July 1989

Paediatric Nursing

Surgery

The Department of Health has endorsed the concept that modern child health care requires a service integrated between hospital and community and one that provides...

Will they listen?

01 March 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Editorial

The aim of the recently-created Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH) (www.cppih.org) is to advocate for the involvement of the public in...

The birth of a new society

01 November 1993

Paediatric Nursing

Romania

Under the auspices of RCN president June Clark's Romanian Appeal, we visited Romania in August to help the Romanian Nurses Association (RNA) set up a Paediatric...