Pragmatic Children's Nursing is the first attempt to create a paediatric nursing theory which argues for the importance of giving children living with illness access to a childhood which is, as far as possible, equal to that of their peers. Set in the historical context of the development of children's nursing, this theory is presented in detail as an educational process, complete with eight outcome measures which allow the practitioner to evaluate its effectiveness.

Duncan C. Randall is a Principal Teaching Fellow in Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Preface 1. If it quacks like a pigeon, it's a duck! The context of children's nursing 2. Assumptions about understanding, nursing, children and childhoods 3. Children living a childhood 4. The "I , the thou and the them" of children's nursing-Bauman 5. What's the good of children's nursing? 6. Worked example case studies 7. Afterword