Lisa Kirwan
Lisa Kirwan
RECENTLY I WAS involved in a situation in which I was asked to assist two staff nurses in an invasive procedure with a young child. Initially, I held the child down as instructed to do by the staff nurses. The child became distressed, so I ...
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Sarah Smith
Sarah Smith
BEING A PATIENT in the NHS is like being a stranger in a foreign country. It has its own food, language and customs, clans and chiefs. It can be frightening, confusing and alienating for adults, let alone children visiting a hospital or GP'...
Jenny Pinfield
Jenny Pinfield
Nearly 30% of UK children aged 2-15 years are overweight or obese ( Department of Health 2013), with Lepkowska (2014) highlighting the rise in the number of children admitted to hospital with obesity-related problems.
Sue Higham,Joan Simons
Sue Higham
IF YOU HAVE an idea for a research project, whether it is an investigation or a literature review, it can be difficult to know where to start looking for financial support. Finding colleagues to work with will provide you with a sounding bo...
Radhika Holmström
Radhika Holmström
OXYGEN DEPRIVATION at birth - perinatal asphyxia - is a well-known risk to children's health and development, resulting in permanent neurological damage that can include cerebral palsy and/or learning disability.
Nick Triggle
Nick Triggle
RECOGNITION THAT the health outcomes for children and young people in the UK lag behind comparable countries has prompted the government to respond by calling for services to be redesigned.
TAILORED TREATMENT PLANS should be developed with families to help children with asthma from South Asian backgrounds in the UK, a study has concluded.
Jennifer Sprinks
Jennifer Sprinks
FRESH PROPOSALS for reorganising children's heart surgery have been published for consultation just over a year after the government described the proposed reforms arising from a previous review as 'flawed'.
WHILE THERE has been an increase in commissioned children's nursing training places across the UK since 2013/14, the number of children's nurses in Wales and Scotland has fallen, government figures show.