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Assessment and awareness of the challenges can help young people

09 December 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Resources

In the UK, young carers are defined as people under the age of 18 who give regular and ongoing care to a family member, beyond that normally expected of a child...

Overcoming the barriers to using kangaroo care in neonatal settings

10 June 2015

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

Skin-to-skin contact, or kangaroo care (KC), has benefits for babies and parents, improving clinical outcomes, temperature control, breastfeeding rates and...

Starting out - A boy’s death in Tanzania taught me that avoidable errors cost lives

08 October 2014

Nursing Standard

Reflections

In my final year of nurse training, I undertook a seven-week elective placement in Mbeya, Tanzania, where I worked in a maternity hospital and on a children’s ward...

Childhood obesity: The challenges for nurses

11 March 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

Obesity is one of the biggest challenges facing UK children’s nurses today. However, it is a problem borne of many causes and requiring multi-level interventions. It...