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None of us need reminding of the importance of early childhood experiences in relation to physical, intellectual, and emotional development. However, it is just as essential to promote healthy...
Our SCPH team consisted of an academic portfolio lead, a programme leader, a senior teaching fellow and a school nurse lecturer practitioner who played a crucial role in shaping the school nursing...
‘MDIs are considered more challenging to use than most other devices … Spacer devices are therefore helpful tools that … minimise coordination difficulties, reduce oropharyngeal deposition and...
A search of literature published between 2015 and 2023 focused on westernised healthcare provision, excluding hospital or care home settings. The inquiry used the terms ‘health visitor’, ‘specialist...
The WHO (2022) stresses the need for high-quality postnatal care to improve the outcomes of maternal and infant health and wellbeing, and promote positive postnatal experiences. Increasingly,...
Developing interventions that target perpetrators as well as victims is essential in addressing the rising incidence of cyberbullying that CYP currently encounter. SNs need to take the lead and work...
‘And though there is no evidence for phobias pre-programmed through evolution, there is some evidence in animals that suggests that we may be readier to learn a fear to an evolutionary relevant...
Teaching children empathy can have a positive impact on their behaviour, emotional awareness, and tolerance and understanding of other cultures, a study has found (Webb et al, 2024).
A free revalidation portfolio and CPD resource for nurses and midwives.
’Poverty at any age can have a devastating mental health impact but can be especially pernicious for children and young people. It is “impossible to overestimate how important poverty is as a driver”...
The shortage of health visitors and the change in commissioning of services has resulted in many first-time parents having no access to health visitors in those crucial first few weeks and months.
‘NHS mental health teams are currently in contact with record numbers of children and young people, and since fast-tracking the introduction of these MHSTs, it's brilliant that we can confirm that...
‘GPs and health practitioners have issued an urgent warning to parents to vaccinate their children, after a huge spike in the number of cases of whooping cough in the UK in recent months.’ .
‘School nurses utilise their clinical judgement and public health expertise to identify health needs early, determine potential risk, and provide early intervention to prevent issues from...
‘Schools are well placed as a setting to deliver early and preventative mental health interventions to large numbers of children and adolescents… However, the effectiveness of school-based...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the degree of professional satisfaction in nurses working in paediatric hospitals of tertiary care, as well as the factors affecting these parameters in...
The NMC's updated standards, notably the Part 3 Standards for post-registration programmes (NMC, 2024a) and the Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (NMC, 2024b)...
‘A new and popular feature at the congress was the opportunity to “borrow a researcher”. Here, school nurses could informally discuss their practice and ideas for research with an established...
Adolescent and adult anxieties tend to revolve around both personal issues such as peer relationships, school and exams and global or existential issues such as climate change, war, economic crises...
We often struggle to explain our role, measure the impact and value, so how can we expect others to fully understand the importance of what we do compared to a safeguarding procedure? This lack of...
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This new study analysed the outcomes of using an Infant–Toddler Checklist (ITC) in child health services in Sweden in toddlers aged 18 months. The authors note that disorders involving language and...
Journal of Family & Child Health provides clinical resources for children’s health and wellbeing. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge to meet the public health needs of young people.
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