Striving to excel

Joan Myers

Educating children’s nurses for communicating bad news

Doreen Crawford, Doris Corkin, Jane Coad, Rachel Hollis

Messy boundaries: younger students’ experiences of nursing young people in hospital

Jean Shepherd

Open Access Parental decisions on children participating in research

Mohamed Elemraid, Kerry Pollard, Matthew Thomas, Clare Simmister, David Spencer, Stephen Rushton, Andrew Gennery, Julia Clark

Why we still need to be vigilant about polio here and abroad

Ted Hill

Student voice - Tough topic

Lisa Kirwan

Starting out - One year on

Rebecca Harmer

Persisting Pain in Children

Leisa Meigh

Essential Neonatal Medicine

Sue Turrill

Mental Health & Growing Up

Dean-David Holyoake

Children’s Health: The Essential Guide

Nicola Eaton

The Student Nurse Handbook

Sarah Trzcinksi

Quality of newborn screening information needs to improve

Jane Chudleigh

Research and commentary

Research digest

Jenny Pinfield

Click

Sue Collier

Journal scan

Diary

Noticeboard

Children with epilepsy are at risk from schools’ lack of care plans

Christian Duffin

Why girls fall into gang culture

Daniel Allen

WellChild award honours best nurses

News in brief

Ethical study seeks views on medical research in children

Mortality falls despite more children sent to intensive care units

Health visitors ‘most motivated’ when they get adequate support

Ombudsman warns of deaths linked to poor sepsis treatment

Sophie Blakemore

The ethics of testing in children

Christine Walker