Workforce planning and community children's nurses: it's all in the advertisements.

This paper outlines a study exploring job advertisements for community children's nurses (CCNs). A post-structural approach was taken to illuminate the development of community children's nursing services (CCNS) and the profile of characteristics, skills and caseload within a workforce-planning context. An analysis of 100 advertisements looked at title, skills, caseload, qualifications and evolving roles.