This week’s blog comes from Courtney Chater who qualified as a children’s nurse in 2016, and worked for 16 months on PICU at Birmingham Children’s Hospital before moving to NICU at Birmingham Women’s Hospital in February 2018. Courtney has developed an interest in supporting multiple birth families and describes her approach to mobilising new learning […]
Category: Child Health
‘Congenital Heart Disease, Lockdown and me: Global Perspectives of Living through a Pandemic’
Dr Kerry Gaskin, Chairperson Congenital Cardiac Nurses Association, Head of Department Midwifery and CPD, Three Counties School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Worcester @GaskinKerry @CongenitalCNA #CCNA21 Over the last year children, young people, and adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), their families, health care professionals, organisations and charities supporting them, have faced unprecedented challenges […]
The forgotten families – Impact of a child’s autism on families and carers mental health during the pandemic.
As we reach the end of Autism Awareness Week, Nicky Thomas, a PhD student exploring parental and carer wellbeing for families who care for children with intellectual disabilities at University of Warwick (Warwick Medical School), writes this blog to raise awareness of the challenges of families we may care for where a child has autism. […]
Impact of COVID-19 on Children and Families
By Danielle Hamilton BScN, RN COVID-19 has rattled our world, with devastating impacts on children and families across the globe. From job loss to supply shortages, parents and children have been faced with new and evolving sources of stress. Parents are concerned about not only the physical health of children and protecting them from the […]
The vital importance of family nursing and midwifery in the UK and Ireland
Authors: Professor Veronica Swallow @SwallowVeronica, Professor Alison Metcalfe @MetcalfeAlison & Professor Veronica Lambert @vLambertDCU @IFNA_UKI Nurses and midwives (nurses) play a major role in supporting people across the life-course. Within multi-disciplinary teams nurses support many patients/clients remotely, but patients/clients rely predominantly on family members for home-based support with self-management. Family nursing provides nursing care to the […]
New Frontier for Integration.
Completing our series of 4 blogs for #childrensmentalhealthweek is Ayasha Fisher (@ayasha09017404), CAMHS Crisis Liaison Nurse and Clinical Lead Nurse. She argues that we have some way to go yet before CYP mental health services achieve parity of esteem with physical health services. New initiatives might herald better integration of physical and mental health care which […]
How human rights can help us to humanise the mental health system for young people
Continuing our series of blogs for #childrensmentalhealthweek James Kenrick (@JamesKenrick1), CEO of Youth Access, argues that a rights-based approach to service design and quality will empower both young people and practitioners to achieve a common cause: the ‘humanisation’ of youth mental health services. These topics will be discussed in our twitter chat on 12 February […]
Be CYP mental health cheerleaders despite the challenges caused by under resourcing.
Continuing our series of blogs for Children’s Mental Health Week (#childrensmentalhealthweek) that will culminate in a twitter chat on 12 February 2020 at 8pm UK time we have this blog by Barry Nixon. Barry is the Northwest lead for CYP IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) with CMECIC , a community interest company that offers a […]
Talk to me, listen to me.
Mair Elliot (@MairElliott1 ; mairelliot.com) is a young patient advocate who uses her personal experience of mental ill health and autism to challenge and teach. We are very proud the Mair has produced this blog for us to mark the start of Children’s Mental Health Week #childrensmentalhealthweek. We will be publishing 4 blogs this week. […]
Mental Health Spotlight for EBN in 2020
During 2020, Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) will be focusing on mental health. Throughout the year we will be highlighting key issues relating to mental health and identifying relevant EBN content and other useful resources. Watch out for a year-long series of tweets (@EBNursingBMJ) and Facebook posts (BMJ for Nursing). A summary of the mental health […]