Editorial Editor Christine Walker Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3154 Email: [email protected] Managing director Rhonda Oliver Editor in chief Jean Gray Senior editor Gary Bell Acting assistant editor Jennifer Sprinks Head of production Fiona Maclean Senior production editor Julie Hickey Art director Ken McLoone Designer Sujata Aurora Production editor Janet Perham Picture editor Phil Brecht Deputy picture editor Helen Jones Digital director John Day Web editor Amanda Carter
A day to celebrate the profession
ADMINISTRATION Administration manager Helen Hyland Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch
NURSES’ Day on May 12 provides an opportunity to celebrate all that is unique about the profession and the huge difference that nurses can make to children’s lives.
BUSINESS UNIT Commercial director Tony O’Rourke Head of marketing Helen Sumner Marketing executive Louise Gallagher Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Advertisement and sponsorship sales manager Neil Hobson Senior sponsorship and advertising specialist Julia Gomersall Advertisement and sponsorship executives Rachel Fisher, Kelly Smith Advertisement production executive Sally Gauntlett Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 Classified advertisement manager Andy McCallum Sales project specialist Freddie Collier Classified advertisement executives Mandy Croggon, Shona Gethin
The RCN asked primary school-aged children to design a card to be used as part of the merchandising for the event. Other organisations, such as the Cavell Nurses’ Trust, are promoting the event in its international context and raising much-needed funds in the process.
CONSULTANT EDITORS Doreen Crawford Senior lecturer in nursing and midwifery, De Montfort University, Leicester Annette Dearmun Divisional head of governance and nursing (children’s and women’s division), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Antoinette Bewley Senior lecturer, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Susan Chapman Honorary consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust David Clarke Lecturer in nursing, Cardiff University Imelda Coyne Professor of children’s nursing and director of children’s research, Trinity College Dublin Mats Eriksson Associate professor, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden Huda Abu-Saad Huijer Professor of nursing science, American University of Beirut Regina Lai Tong Lee Associate professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Orla McAlinden Lecturer in nursing (children and young people), Queen’s University Belfast Toby Mohammed Head of practice development, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Linda Shields Professor of tropical health nursing, James Cook University and Townsville Health Service District; and honorary professor, Queensland University, Australia Fiona Smith RCN adviser in children’s and young people’s nursing Joanna Smith Senior lecturer in children’s nursing, University of Huddersfield Jocelyne Tourigny Professor and assistant director graduate programs, Ottowa, Canada Mark Whiting Consultant nurse, Peace Children’s Centre, Watford, and WellChild professor of community children’s nursing, University of Herfordshire
This month’s issue celebrates the many facets of children’s nursing and its development, from the acute and community sectors to school nursing. Mark Whiting reminds us of the crucial role that nurses play, not just with children and young people themselves but with whole families, in an article on the help and support families need in the often overwhelming task of caring for a child with a disability and complex health needs. Many of his research findings on what families value in health professionals reflect attributes you will recognise – namely, ‘going the extra mile’, ‘working beyond the job description’, being available out of hours, providing emotional and
NURSING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RCN Publishing Company, 59-65 Lowlands Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 11,073 (Jan-Dec 2013) Nursing Children and Young People is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: Medline (PubMed), CINAHL, BNI and Ovid. SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department Tel: 0345 772 6100 Personal rates for print edition: from £66 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional print edition rates: from £446 a year Email: [email protected] ©2014 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 2046-2336 (print). ISSN 2046-2034 (online)
Families of a child with a disability value health professionals who work beyond the job description and believe in parental instinct
Christine Walker Editor
psychological support, and believing in and valuing parental instinct (page 24). In the spirit of involving children and young people in health care, Caroline Carter and Kate Brown describe a university project where service users took part in recruitment and selection, teaching and learning, and assessment of students. The project shows the benefits of involving young people in recruiting and selecting candidates. However, it also demonstrates the limitations of such well-intentioned initiatives, particularly the potentially damaging consequences to students of negative feedback, which needs careful management (page 28). We begin a new series this month looking at the public health challenges for patients and nurses in the four countries of the UK, starting with England, where public health services are in a state of flux after undergoing fundamental change (page 8). Finally, a reminder that, with the support of the RCN’s Research in Child Health community, we are once again offering a research award. Two awards of £750 each are on offer and more details are available in Noticeboard on page 10.
Our mission
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Nursing Children and Young People aims to promote excellence in neonatal, infant, children’s and young people’s nursing practice. The journal is editorially independent and the opinions expressed are not those of the RCN, nor of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCN Publishing ncyp.rcnpublishing.com
Follow us: @EditorNCYP
NURSING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
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A day to celebrate the profession
ADMINISTRATION Administration manager Helen Hyland Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch
NURSES’ Day on May 12 provides an opportunity to celebrate all that is unique about the profession and the huge difference that nurses can make to children’s lives.
BUSINESS UNIT Commercial director Tony O’Rourke Head of marketing Helen Sumner Marketing executive Louise Gallagher Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Advertisement and sponsorship sales manager Neil Hobson Senior sponsorship and advertising specialist Julia Gomersall Advertisement and sponsorship executives Rachel Fisher, Kelly Smith Advertisement production executive Sally Gauntlett Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 Classified advertisement manager Andy McCallum Sales project specialist Freddie Collier Classified advertisement executives Mandy Croggon, Shona Gethin
The RCN asked primary school-aged children to design a card to be used as part of the merchandising for the event. Other organisations, such as the Cavell Nurses’ Trust, are promoting the event in its international context and raising much-needed funds in the process.
CONSULTANT EDITORS Doreen Crawford Senior lecturer in nursing and midwifery, De Montfort University, Leicester Annette Dearmun Divisional head of governance and nursing (children’s and women’s division), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Antoinette Bewley Senior lecturer, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Susan Chapman Honorary consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust David Clarke Lecturer in nursing, Cardiff University Imelda Coyne Professor of children’s nursing and director of children’s research, Trinity College Dublin Mats Eriksson Associate professor, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden Huda Abu-Saad Huijer Professor of nursing science, American University of Beirut Regina Lai Tong Lee Associate professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Orla McAlinden Lecturer in nursing (children and young people), Queen’s University Belfast Toby Mohammed Head of practice development, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Linda Shields Professor of tropical health nursing, James Cook University and Townsville Health Service District; and honorary professor, Queensland University, Australia Fiona Smith RCN adviser in children’s and young people’s nursing Joanna Smith Senior lecturer in children’s nursing, University of Huddersfield Jocelyne Tourigny Professor and assistant director graduate programs, Ottowa, Canada Mark Whiting Consultant nurse, Peace Children’s Centre, Watford, and WellChild professor of community children’s nursing, University of Herfordshire
This month’s issue celebrates the many facets of children’s nursing and its development, from the acute and community sectors to school nursing. Mark Whiting reminds us of the crucial role that nurses play, not just with children and young people themselves but with whole families, in an article on the help and support families need in the often overwhelming task of caring for a child with a disability and complex health needs. Many of his research findings on what families value in health professionals reflect attributes you will recognise – namely, ‘going the extra mile’, ‘working beyond the job description’, being available out of hours, providing emotional and
NURSING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RCN Publishing Company, 59-65 Lowlands Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 11,073 (Jan-Dec 2013) Nursing Children and Young People is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: Medline (PubMed), CINAHL, BNI and Ovid. SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department Tel: 0345 772 6100 Personal rates for print edition: from £66 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional print edition rates: from £446 a year Email: [email protected] ©2014 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 2046-2336 (print). ISSN 2046-2034 (online)
Families of a child with a disability value health professionals who work beyond the job description and believe in parental instinct
Christine Walker Editor
psychological support, and believing in and valuing parental instinct (page 24). In the spirit of involving children and young people in health care, Caroline Carter and Kate Brown describe a university project where service users took part in recruitment and selection, teaching and learning, and assessment of students. The project shows the benefits of involving young people in recruiting and selecting candidates. However, it also demonstrates the limitations of such well-intentioned initiatives, particularly the potentially damaging consequences to students of negative feedback, which needs careful management (page 28). We begin a new series this month looking at the public health challenges for patients and nurses in the four countries of the UK, starting with England, where public health services are in a state of flux after undergoing fundamental change (page 8). Finally, a reminder that, with the support of the RCN’s Research in Child Health community, we are once again offering a research award. Two awards of £750 each are on offer and more details are available in Noticeboard on page 10.
Our mission
Printed by Stephens and George, Merthyr Tydfil
Nursing Children and Young People aims to promote excellence in neonatal, infant, children’s and young people’s nursing practice. The journal is editorially independent and the opinions expressed are not those of the RCN, nor of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCN Publishing ncyp.rcnpublishing.com
Follow us: @EditorNCYP
NURSING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Read more at: nursingblog.rcnpublishing.co.uk
Visit us at: Nursing Children and Young People May 2014 | Volume 26 | Number 4
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