Evidence-based Child Health Care

Introduction: Challenging Issues Facing Children's Nurses in their Quest to Deliver Evidence-Based Practice; E.A.Glasper & L.Ireland.- Evidence-Based Clinical Nursing Practice: Providing the Evidence; T.Long.- The Legacy of a Paediatric Nursing Degree Course; A.Dearmun .- The Role of Professional Journals in Promoting Evidence-Based Care; A.Casey.- Parental Participation in the Care of Hospitalised Children: A Review of the Evidence; P.Callery & E.Savage.- Being a Mother of a Critically Sick Child: Issues for Nursing Practice and Research; J.Noyes.- Children's Voices in Health Care Planning; E.Elliott & A.Watson.- The Surveillance of Childhood Accidents: Providing the Evidence for Accident Prevention; L.King.- Children's Knowledge of their Internal Anatomy; C.Gaudion.- Can Information Leaflets Assist Parents in Preparing Children for Hospital Admission?; K.Stone.- Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health: Enhancing Professional Knowledge and Skills; R.Smith.- Added Power and Understanding in Sex Education; J.Tripp.- A Prospective Study of the Provision and Outcome of Paediatric Intensive Care in the South West United Kingdom; S.Warne.- The Lived Experiences of Paediatric Nurses' Enjoyment of Caring for Sick Children; M.Bodycombe-James.- Nurses' Management of Fever: Rituals or Evidence-Based Practice?; M.Harrison.- Decision Analysis in Evidence-Based Children's Nursing; D.O'Sulivan-Burchard.- Measuring Effectiveness: The Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse's Role; L.Lowes.- Home Sweet Home: Examining the Interface Between Hospital and Home; M.Lane & S.Barker.- Intravenous Antibiotics at Home: A Parent's Perspective; C.Ruskin.- There's a Whole Family Hurting: The Experience of Living with a Child in Chronic Pain; B.Carter.- A Collaborative Approach to Evidence-Based Child Health Nursing Practice; S.Nagy.

EDWARD ALAN GLASPER is Professor of Nursing and Director of Child Health Services at the University of SouthamptonLORRAINE IRELAND is Lecturer in Child Health Nursing at the University of Southampton