Education of children’s nurses in Ireland: an update

Carmel Doyle, Maryanne Murphy, Thelma Begley, Carole B King

Ty Hafan: ‘Here to hold your hand’

Linda Bishop

Managing fever

Evaluation of dressings used with local anaesthetic cream and for peripheral venous cannulation

Rowan Needham, Eugen-Matthias Strehle

Copying letters to children and parents: audit and survey of nurses’ views

Fiona Finlay, Simon Bedwani, Jacquelyn Bell, Rose Conway, Mary Lewis, Anna Baverstock

Nursing Dillon: the value of attachment

Carol Nahra

Parents’ views of their children who have complex health needs

Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor

Basic life support and children with profound and multiple learning disabilities

Stefan Cash, Andrea Shinnick-Page

Post-operative pain: the impact of prescribing patterns on nurses’ administration of analgesia

Joan Simons, Laurence Moseley

Now and then

Jeremy Jolley

Nursing care in acute settings of children with special needs

To have and to hold

Irene Jones

Preparations for operations

Perceptions of pain

Journal scan

Disability and Impairment

Pat Rose

Early Childhood Development

Ruth Davies

Commentary

Michelle Green

Noticeboard

Children in Intensive Care: A Survival Guide

Dave Clarke

Events

On the web

Doors open at new hospice

Antenatal screening cuts HIV infection rates for infants

Support for looked-after children in Scotland

News in brief

Countering abuse through e-learning programme

Children’s nurse registration to stay

Getting the balance right

Anne casey