child health

Picture shows boys taking turns drinking from a water fountain at a park. Practical information aimed at schools, nurseries and colleges to support children with bladder and bowel issues and toileting has been published by Bowel and Bladder UK.
Primary Health Care

Support for children with bowel and bladder problems

Policy briefing
30 Oct 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

Does parental anxiety affect children’s perception of pain during intravenous cannulation?

Clinical
28 Oct 2019
hands of a healthcare professional in foreground preparing to administer MMR vaccine to baby out of focus in the background
Nursing Standard

Childhood immunisation: lack of call and recall mechanism hampers uptake – RCN

News
25 Oct 2019
illustration shows a road that forks, with sign pointing left showing obese people, sign on right showing people of healthy weight
Nursing Standard

Put that snack away: childhood obesity and the case for banning food on public transport

Comment
22 Oct 2019
Picture shows a father holding a baby in a neonatal unit. This editorial says parents need more support when infants go into neonatal care, but proposals in the latest consultation fall short.
Nursing Children and Young People

Neonatal support plans fail the most vulnerable

Editorial
22 Oct 2019
In the child’s best interests: should life be sustained when further treatment is futile?
Nursing Children and Young People

In the child’s best interests: should life be sustained when further treatment is futile?

Clinical
22 Oct 2019
Picture shows a young male with pectus excavatum, in which the chest sinks inwards. Specialist nurse Cheryl Honeyman says the end of funding for surgery on chest deformities in young people is wrong and calls for more research
Nursing Children and Young People

Halt to funding for chest deformity surgery is a cruel blow

Comment
22 Oct 2019
Picture of a child alone on a park bench
Nursing Children and Young People

Safeguarding partners: what children’s nurses need to know

Policy briefing
14 Oct 2019
child eats holds burger while sipping a drink from a straw
Nursing Standard

Curbing childhood obesity: investment in school nurses and health visitors is key – RCN

News
10 Oct 2019
Health visitor on a visit
Nursing Standard

Health visitors: number of home visits should increase to eight, charity recommends

News
10 Oct 2019
Peer-to-peer mentoring for and by at-risk young people
Mental Health Practice

Peer-to-peer mentoring for and by at-risk young people

Clinical
10 Oct 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

How a healthcare assistant made the operating theatre a less scary place for children

Features
09 October 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

How a healthcare assistant made the operating theatre a less scary place for children

Features
09 October 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

Applications invited for new children's nursing research awards

News
04 October 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

The case for integrated and community children’s continence services

Comment
03 October 2019
Mental Health Practice

Validity of a two-question tool in detecting antenatal depression in Malawi

Clinical
01 October 2019
Nursing Standard

Childhood vaccines: nurses are key to increasing their uptake, RCN says

News
30 September 2019
Nursing Children and Young People

Exploring the implementation of family-witnessed resuscitation in children and young people

Clinical
30 September 2019

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