Conference presentations

RCN Children and young people conference
11-12 September 2009, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

Friday sessions

1.1.1. Patricia McNeilly, Doing research that elicits disabled children's views: methodological and ethical considerations (PDF 6.88MB)
1.1.3. Honor Nicholl, Thelma Begley, Eleanor Hollywood, Carole King and Maryanne Murphy, An interpretation of the children's nursing content of undergraduate nursing programmes in Ireland (PDF 274KB)
1.2.2. Mark Hollywood and Eleanor Hollywood, The lived experiences of fathers of a premature baby on a neonatal intensive care unit (PDF 872KB)
1.2.3. Sue Higham, Fathers are partners too: fathers' involvement in the care of their acutely ill children in hospital (1.14MB)
1.3.2. Jude Campbell, Square Peg - Round Hole? (PDF 461KB)
1.4.1. Kath Summers and Julie Critcher, Eating abroad together: linking language and health (PDF 5.25MB)
1.4.2. Hannah Solomon, Methods for determining the insertion distance of nasogastric tubes in children (PDF 941KB)
1.5.1. Julia Shirtliffe and Linda Maynard, Implementing the East of England paediatric oncology palliative care pathway in Norfolk: the children's hospice perspective (PDF 1.14MB)
1.5.2. Katrina McNamara-Goodger, Is There Anyone There? (PDF 243KB)
1.5.2. Sara Kirby, Liz Herd and David Widdas, Making care pathways happen (PDF 2.1MB)
1.6.1. June Rogers, The children's continence nursing service developed over the past 25 years (PDF 7.04MB)
1.6.2. Jo Searles, Catheterisation now available in schools (PDF 352KB)
1.6.3. Caroline Sanders and Sarah Doyle, Transition in adolescent urology, slowly moving forwards (PDF 3.13MB)
1.7.2. Mark Whiting, World Class Commissioning in the 21st Century - grappling with outcomes (PDF 1.7MB)
2.1.1. Linbda Maynard, Alison Brennan, Paula Brewer and Natalie Bulow, Developing oral care pratice for children with palliative care needs: methodological challenges in action research (PDF 832KB)
2.1.3. Alison Tonkin, Promoting the use of evidence through a Teddy Murder Mystery (PDF 2.72MB)
2.2.1. Supporting children and young people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitits (CFS/ME) and their families in North Cumbria (PDF 1.76MB)
2.2.2. Mark Whiting, Community children's nursing in the East of England (PDF 299KB)
2.2.3. Angela Waddell and Kerrie Duhre, Snapshot of children's community nursing in NHS Fife over the last 10 years (PDF 568KB)
2.2.4. Rebecca Daniels, Driving up the quality of care - practice development facilitator in community children's nursing (PDF 731KB)
2.3.1. Annette Dickinson, The influence of automaticity and nursing experience on the process of administration of medications to infants and children (PDF 988KB)
2.3.4. An innovative approach to supporting young people within a health setting employing a multi-agency NHS/Local Authority Partnership Approach (PDF 1.69MB)
2.4.1. Jess Higson and Jude Taylor, Children's pre-assessment: an evaluation of nurse practitioner-led services for elective day case surgery (35.3KB)
2.4.2. Julia Judd and Liz Wright, Evaluating and redesigning the children's fracture service (PDF 7.05MB)
2.4.3. Irene Molloy, An opportunity of advancing practice that cross traditional boundaries (PDF 132KB)
2.4.4. Erica Thomas, Wide open - advanced practice in paediatric surgery (PDF 11.2MB)
2.6.1. Sarah Doyle, Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in children (PDF 2.45MB)
2.6.2. Brenda Cheer, Bladder reconstructive surgery: what does it mean to the child? (PDF 1.12MB)
2.6.3. Sue Keeble, The challenge of long distance urology (PDF 76.2KB)
2.7.2. Lesley Mackay, Diversity and difference with disabled children and their families (PDF 418KB)
2.7.3. Fiona Adcock, Supporting children and families with acquired brain injury: a community support team approach (PDF 642KB)

Fringe events:
Choice in care: home hospice or hospital - how far have we come? (PDF 21.7KB)
Rebecca Thompson, Motivating adolescents... (PDF 293KB)
Jane Coad and Faith Gibson, RiCH(PDF 538KB)
Jacqui Baverstock, Sharon Storey and Steve McKenna, Children and young people living with HIV: today, tomorrow and the future (PDF 17.8KB)

Plenary sessions:
Sue Burr, Setting the scene (PowerPoint 5.79MB)

Saturday sessions

Keynote address:
The Baroness Massey of Darwen, Current issues for the young person's agenda (PDF 378KB)

3.1.3. Janet Davies, The development and delivery of clinical skills over the last twenty five years (PDF 3.03MB)
3.2.1. Jenny Mooney, Review of patient safety for children and young people (PDF 572KB)
3.2.2. Jenny Myles, Children's nursing - a profession with a memory (PDF 965KB)
3.2.3. Caroline Dilks and Debbie Martin, Grow our own ... two (PDF 62.8KB)
3.3.1. Melanie Chippendale, Like a rabbit caught in headlights (PDF 384KB)
3.3.3. Maggie Doman, Do we need HDUs for children? The challenges and benefits of providing high dependency care in children's wards and HDUs (PDF 987KB)
3.4.1. Linda Sanderson and Rachel Byatt, Supporting the transition of Child branch student nurses into the common foundation programme (PDF 912KB)
3.4.3. Jo Rouse, Rachel Richards, Jenny Pinfield, Theresa Pengelly, Mary Passant and Jackie Stretton, Responsive innovations in child health nursing: development of a pilot project(PDF 184KB)
3.5.1. Jayne Scotland, Karen Sinclair, Katie Rigg and Francis Edwards, The role of four nurse consultants in developing the Scottish vision for children and young people's palliative care (PDF 1.2MB)
3.5.2. Jenny Mackenzie and Debbie Meredith, End of life care - is it ever good enough? (PDF 1.01MB)
3.5.3. Katrina McNamara-Goodger, Time travel: the reality of developing children and young people's palliative care services (PDF 1MB)
3.6.1. Jane Willock, Nurse-led care: the children's medical day-case unit (PDF 3.79MB)
3.6.2. Rachael Bolland, An exploration of doctors' attitudes towards the development of nurses' roles within a paediatric unit (PDF 1.04MB)
3.6.3. Carwen Earles and Dean Snipe, Children and young people's health care and advanced clinical practice (PDF 38.1KB)
3.7.1-2. Mal Patterson, The diploma: bringing learning to life (PDF 5.12MB)
3.7.3. Liz McArthur and Liam Cairns, Children and young people: participation and involvement in their health care (PDF 7.7MB)
4.1.1. Faith Gibson and Rachel Taylor, Development of an advanced symptom management system for monitoring and managing chemotherapy related symptoms (PDF 1.19MB)
4.1.2. Jayne Pentin, Addressing complaints the innovative way: the Patient Information Project (PDF 3.55MB)
4.2.1. Sandy Oldfield, Parents' experience of their child's chronic illness (diabetes or asthma) (PDF 501KB)
4.3.1. Kath Evans and Christine McDermott, Delivering quality and value - Focus on: children and young people, emergency and urgent care pathway (PDF 6.62MB)
4.3.2. Ellie Forbes and Jean Wilson, A multi-professional educational programme designed to develop and maintain competence for all front-line practitioners working with children and young people across Scotland (PDF 846KB)
4.4.1. Sarah Neill and Sarah Cowley, Containing acute childhood illness within family life: a grounded theory (PDF 725KB)
4.4.2. Imelda Coyne, A national survey of registered nurses' practice and perceptions of family-centered care practices in children's units in Ireland (PDF 151KB)
4.5.1. Sally Shearer, Preparing for the future, releasing time to care (PDF 1.93MB)
4.5.2. Debbie Killman, Gloucestershire Children's Services: a journey of success (PDF 1.52MB)
4.6.1. Jo Bennett, Kerry Holt and Anne McManus, Fear of the unknown! (PDF 257KB)
4.6.2. Toby Aslam Mohammed, Advancing skills in children's nursing: moving towards advanced practice (PDF 5.6MB)
4.7.1. Chris Doyle, Nurse led innovations in the overall management of paediatric asthma and allergy (PDF 682KB)
4.7.2. Jan Vickers, Palliative care drug boxes: facilitating safe and effective symptom management for home end of life care for children and young people (PDF 165KB)
5.1.1. Same Smith, Lorraine Case and Matthew Hughes, Sometimes It's Cancer (PDF 5.07MB)
5.1.2. Caroline Mearns, Looked after children's nurses in Scotland: education as the supporting role (PDF 1.07MB)
5.1.3. Dawn Moss, Supporting education for specialist services for children and young people (PDF 507KB)
5.2.1. Joanna Smith, Parent participation in the context of diagnosing shunt malfunction in children (PDF 552KB)
5.2.2. Wendy Sewell, Exploring the health benefits of using relaxation therapies with children (PDF 2.9MB)
5.3.1. Brian Samwell, Discharge planning in the children's hospital: who cares? (PDF 607KB)
5.3.2. June Gallagher, Developing the role of the clinical access coordinator (PDF 1.2MB)
5.4.1. Hilary Marcer, Which magazines do teenagers read in the waiting room and what health messages are they reading? (PDF 1.34MB)
5.4.2. Jim Richardson and Mark Llewellyn, Research on sexual health, teenage pregnancy, and being teenage parents in Rhondda Cynon Taf (PDF 300KB)
5.5.1. Fiona Finlay and Dora Wood, Complementary medicine use in children with life-limiting conditions (PDF 462KB)
5.5.2. Eddie Hincks and Tracy Cunningham, Take one oncology unit, nine different professionals: see multi-professional collaboration in action for our patients (PDF 1.27MB)
5.5.3. Nicola Dean and Erica Brown, Yesterday, today and tomorrow: the role of a children's hospice service (PDF 274KB)
5.6.1. Alison Twycross, Managing pain in children: where to from here? (PDF 1.13MB)
5.6.2. Mark Whiting, "Is this my life?": meaning and sense-making as key determinants of parent's experience when caring for children with disabilities and complex health needs (PDF 421KB)

Fringe events:
Sue Hooton and Emily Nguu, Developing children's nursing programmes in a children's hopsital in Nairobi, Kenya (PDF 3.56MB)
Joy Winks, I didn't kow you did that! (PDF 567KB)