{"title":"PANS and PANDAS: what you need to know about these little-known autoimmune disorders","authors":"Pavan Amara","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.4.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.4.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the implementation of key nursing roles in children's cardiac services.","authors":"Kerry Gaskin, Amanda Daniels","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.2024.e1515","DOIUrl":"10.7748/ncyp.2024.e1515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children's cardiac nursing roles have changed over the past decade. Royal College of Nursing (RCN) guidance and NHS England standards have been published with the aim of standardising and enhancing nursing care for children and young people with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their families.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To explore the breath of implementation of key nursing roles in children's cardiac services across the UK and Ireland and to determine whether the roles met the RCN guidance and the NHS England standards.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A cross-sectional survey design was used. The 150 members of the Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association (CCNA) were invited via email to participate and were sent a link to an online survey.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Of the 150 potential respondents, 31 completed the survey. Overall, respondents believed that the RCN guidance had been implemented effectively and that children's cardiac nursing roles matched the RCN's example job descriptions. Respondents' comments suggested that implementation of the NHS England standards had been challenging and that progress in setting up key roles such as lead nurse, cardiac nurse educator and children's cardiac nurse specialist had been slow. Respondents felt that political and financial factors adversely affected recruitment.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Since publication of the NHS England standards there has been some progress in the implementation, in children's cardiac services, of key nursing roles such as lead nurse and innovative nursing roles such as advanced nurse practitioner and research nurse. The findings of this study have informed the latest edition of the RCN guidance, which now includes the role of senior research nurse.</p>","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" ","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138800104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Service evaluation of an independent domestic violence advocate post in a children's hospital.","authors":"Ben Donagh, Julie Taylor, Caroline Bradbury-Jones","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1490","DOIUrl":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) has detrimental effects on the health and well-being of children and young people exposed to it, whether they witness or experience it. The introduction of independent domestic violence advocates in UK hospitals has enhanced the safety of victims of DVA. In 2020-2021 an independent domestic violence advocate post was piloted at a children's hospital for one year, the advocate's role being to train hospital staff and support women who had experienced DVA. A service evaluation showed that the training and support provided by the independent domestic violence advocate had benefits for women, children and staff. It also confirmed that the commissioning of services for children exposed to DVA is often underfunded and overshadowed by the provision of support to adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" ","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138048142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering Dame Elizabeth Fradd, a champion for children and young people","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.4.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.4.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141679544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Late effects in survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers","authors":"Kathy Oxtoby","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.4.12.s4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.4.12.s4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food allergy: a proposed new tool for educating children and young people and supporting them to self-manage.","authors":"Lisa Clarke, Sian Caulton, Clare Alderson","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1475","DOIUrl":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-managing food allergy in children and young people presents challenges for families as they attempt to find a balance between their child's safety and freedom. Nurses have an important role in providing education that supports children, young people and their parents to self-manage food allergy safely but not at the expense of the child or young person's social development. At Nottingham Children's Hospital, the allergy service and youth service have developed an education and support tool composed of three domains, 'awareness', 'checking' and 'emergency kit', forming the acronym ACE. The authors suggest that the ACE tool could be used by healthcare professionals as a framework for educating children and young people with food allergy and their parents, as well as by children and young people and their parents at home to risk assess and risk manage everyday situations and new scenarios or events.</p>","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" ","pages":"24-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138478745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What the rollout of Martha’s rule means for children’s nurses","authors":"Erin Dean","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.3.7.s3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.3.7.s3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":"69 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141019219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to cope when pressure mounts and stress levels soar","authors":"Erin Dean","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.3.16.s7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.3.16.s7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":"15 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141022738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Administration of intravenous fluids and medicines in children and young people.","authors":"Leah Rosengarten","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1481","DOIUrl":"10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Managing intravenous (IV) access is a standard proficiency for UK nurses, enabling them to administer IV injections and IV infusions and to manage injection equipment and infusion pumps and devices. In this article the author describes various types of venous access devices that are commonly seen in practice and details the preparation, checking and administration of IV fluids and medicines, including some complications that may arise. The author also discusses the calculation of fluid requirements, types of IV fluids, displacement values and ongoing care of venous access devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":" ","pages":"34-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10519385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worrying rise in pertussis cases across the UK and Europe","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/ncyp.36.3.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.36.3.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38902,"journal":{"name":"Nursing children and young people","volume":"20 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141018431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}