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Supporting breastfeeding mothers on children’s wards: an overview

01 February 2007

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Just under half of all six-week-old babies in the UK are breastfed, and just under a quarter are still being breastfed at six months old so it is likely that...

A children’s nurse’s role in the global development of a child with diabetes mellitus

01 November 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

The nursing care of a six year old with type 1 diabetes reveals the importance of accurate control of the condition for normal physical, emotional and cognitive...

Opportunistic health promotion among overweight children

10 April 2015

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

Aim To explore children’s nurses’ attitudes to providing health promotion advice to overweight children and their families during hospital admissions. Methods...

Preceptorship: ensuring the best possible start for new nurses

07 February 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

The impending change to nurse education with the move to an all-degree profession in the UK from 2013 and the increasing demands made on nurses working in the NHS...

Grief and the experiences of nurses providing palliative care to children and young people at home

01 November 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

Aims To elicit the views of children’s nurses with regard to the personal, contextual and interprofessional challenges faced when delivering palliative and end of...

Marvellous medicine

06 January 2009

Nursing Standard

General article

Roald Dahl’s widow set up a foundation in his name that funds children’s nurses.

Nurses’ knowledge about the double-checking process for medicines administration

04 November 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

This study aimed to evaluate nurses’ knowledge, perceptions and opinions of double-checking medication administration in a UK children’s hospital. Of 119...

Children’s nurses’ experiences of a revalidation pilot study

11 April 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

All UK nurses and midwives will need to follow the revalidation process to renew their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and demonstrate that...