University of Southampton emeritus professor of children and young people’s nursing Alan Glasper discusses how he became the first active children’s nurse to achieve professorial status

Why did you become a children’s nurse?

I trained as an orthopaedic nurse before undertaking general nurse training. One of the first wards I worked on was a paediatric orthopaedic ward where children were hospitalised, often for many months. Similarly, while beginning general training I was allocated to a children’s ward and realised that this was an area of work that I enjoyed.