An exploration of mental distress in transgender people in Ireland with reference to minority stress and dissonance theory.

Internationally mental distress is more prominent in the LGBTI community than the general population. The LGBTIreland study was set up to take stock of this in the Republic of Ireland. This paper reports on the analysis of the transgender group with reference to minority stress theory and cognitive dissonance theory.

Respite Care for Children with Complex Care Needs: A Literature Review.

Children with complex care needs form a diverse population with a variety of health and social care requisites in the presence of a range of complex symptoms and diagnoses. An exploratory literature review with a systematic search of the current qualitative literature was undertaken to explore parents' perceptions and evaluation of respite care services for children with complex needs. A systematic search was undertaken using a pre-defined search strategy in six databases; CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Applied Social Sciences Index & abstracts and Web of Science.

Enhancing care of children with complex healthcare needs: an improvement project in a community health organisation in Ireland.

Background: Integration of care for children with complex care needs is developing slowly internationally. There remains wide variation in the governance of, and access to, care for these children and their families.

Local Problem: There was a need to develop a service that would have a specific remit for organising the overall management and governance of the care of these children in the community.

LGBT + young people's perceptions of barriers to accessing mental health services in Ireland.

Aim: To explore the barriers to accessing mental health services in the Republic of Ireland from the perspectives of young LGBT + people aged 14-25.

Background: Significant mental health disparities exist between LGBT + young people and their cisgender and heterosexual peers, yet they do not have equitable access to mental health services. Limited research has explored barriers, which exist for LGBTI + young people in accessing services, particularly from their perspectives.

Children's complex care needs: a systematic concept analysis of multidisciplinary language.

Complex care in the arena of child health is a growing phenomenon. Although considerable research is taking place, there remains limited understanding and agreement on the concept of complex care needs (CCNs), with potential for ambiguity. We conducted a systematic concept analysis of the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of children's CCNs from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Internet Use by Parents of Children With Rare Conditions: Findings From a Study on Parents' Web Information Needs.

Background: Parents of children with rare conditions increasingly use the Internet to source information on their child's condition. This study reports on part of a larger study whose overall aim was to identify the Internet use by parents when seeking information on their child's rare condition, with the specific purpose of using the findings to aid in the development of a website specifically designed to meet the parents' needs. It presents findings on why these parents use the Internet, the information and support content they source, and the impact these resources have on their capacity to care for and manage their child's condition.

The extent to which core nursing textbooks inform holistic spiritual care.

National and international professional health and nursing guidelines recommend that attention should be given to the spiritual and religious needs of patients. This suggests that spiritual care is an important aspect of holistic patient care that needs to be considered and supported, if relevant, in a healthcare context. However, many nurses lack knowledge and awareness of the subject, and it is unclear to what extent core textbooks provide the information they need.

Spiritual care competence for contemporary nursing practice: A quantitative exploration of the guidance provided by fundamental nursing textbooks.

Spirituality is receiving unprecedented attention in the nursing literature. Both the volume and scope of literature on the topic is expanding, and it is clear that this topic is of interest to nurses. There is consensus that the spiritual required by clients receiving health ought to be an integrated effort across the health care team.

An exploration of the extent of inclusion of spirituality and spiritual care concepts in core nursing textbooks.

Background: Holistic care that encompasses a spiritual dimension is an expectation in modern healthcare (Rothman, 2009). Increasing attention is being paid to the role of nurses in providing spiritual care to patients. However nurses lack specific skills and expertise in this area (Lundmark, 2006; Timmins, 2010; RCN, 2011), and the extent to which their undergraduate education prepares them for this role is unclear.

Developing an information leaflet on 22q11.2 deletion syndrome for parents to use with professionals during healthcare encounters.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to gather parents' expertise to inform an educational leaflet for parents to share with professionals caring for children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2 DS).

Transition to adult care for young people with long-term conditions.

This study aimed to clarify how the transition from child to adult healthcare is managed in young people with two long-term conditions in the Republic of Ireland.A postal survey using an adapted questionnaire (Flume et al, 2001) with closed and open questions was sent to all physicians and nurse specialists (n=132) caring for children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)in the Republic of Ireland. Data was analysed using SPSS 16.

Measuring and modelling body mass index among a cohort of urban children living with disadvantage.

Aim: To report on baseline outcomes of body mass index, eating habits and physical activity of a cohort of urban disadvantaged children from a longitudinal evaluation of a school based, health promoting initiative.

Background: The healthy schools programme was developed for implementation in schools located in disadvantaged areas of Dublin, Ireland.

Design: A prospective, cohort study design was implemented.

What are pre-registration nurses taught about caring for children?

Nurse education curricula have to be continually reviewed to ensure that content remains applicable to contemporary healthcare developments. In this article, the authors report the findings of a research study that investigated the children's nursing component taught in all non-children's BSc Nursing degree programmes in Irish colleges. The aim of the study was to identify how European Union directives and national curriculum guidelines are interpreted in colleges, and to clarify the preparation that non-children's pre-registration nursing students receive with respect to caring for children.

Education of children's nurses in Ireland: an update.

The first teaching hospital for sick children in Great Britain and Ireland opened in Dublin in 1821. From then, the development of sick children's nursing in Ireland followed a similar path to that in many other countries until a national report in 2000 recognised that post-registration pathways alone were unlikely to meet future health service needs for suitably qualified and flexible children's nurses. In 2006, a four-and-a-half-year integrated children's and general nursing pre-registration degree programme started on four sites.

Who am I now? The experience of being a post-registration children's student nurse in the first clinical placement.

Role transition from staff nurse to post-registration student is not a well researched area of nursing. Two previous Irish studies have been reported of the experiences of post-registration midwifery students [McCrea, H., Thompson, K.