Paediatric nursing
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The Royal College of Nursing recommends that appropriately trained healthcare professionals should support relatives who express a wish to witness resuscitation. The aim of this research was to identify the knowledge and experience of family-witnessed resuscitation of children's nurses. ⋯ Recommendations related to staff who support family members during resuscitation attempts need to be more widely implemented. In particular, the lack of education of children's nurses about family-witnessed resuscitation should be addressed to help improve the care of parents who witness resuscitation of their child.
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Teenage and young adult oncology is emerging as a specialty in its own right. New ways of working and significant changes in attitudes are required if responsive, effective services are to be developed. The challenges and benefits of teenage and young adult multidisciplinary team meetings are discussed in this article, including the need to overcome time and resource constraints for large numbers of professionals to attend an additional meeting. Knowledge of benefits to the adolescent or young adult can help teams in paediatric and adult cancer overcome barriers to joint working.
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Venepuncture is one of the most feared hospital procedures for children and inadequate pain management has the potential to affect future care. Distraction has been shown to help to reduce procedural distress in children. A thematic analysis of relevant literature on distraction techniques revealed that passive distraction is more effective than active distraction during venepuncture and that the effectiveness of a particular technique depends on the attention capacity of the child and their engagement in the distraction activity.