Supporting the Profession of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing Through Scholarly Application

Abstract

I am sure that all our readers will be delighted with the new look journal and its change of name from Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing to Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing: Building Evidence for Practice. The name and colour of the journal may have changed but the mission parameters remain the same. The journal is still the oldest dedicated children’s nursing journal in the world and my editorial board colleagues and I remain proud of that tradition and its aspiration to continue to build the evidence base which underpins the art and science of our profession. The new look journal will continue to contribute to the knowledge base of children’s nurses and other health care professionals who care for children in all health care settings. We all know that child health nursing is a succinct age related field of practice that requires nurses in practice to acquire detailed knowledge of children’s development to meet their highly specific physiological, psychological, emotional, and social needs, especially when they are sick. COMPREHENSIVE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT NURSING 2016, VOL. 39, NO. 2, 81–83 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2016.1184052