Child-Centred Nursing: Promoting Critical Thinking

About Annette DickinsonBernie CarterKaren FordLucy BrayMaria Edwards

Bernie Carter is Professor of Childrens Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire and Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. She is a Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care. She was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in recognition of her contributions to the field of childrens pain. Bernies research and writing focuses on childrens pain experiences and the assessment of childrens pain. She is particularly interested in improving the lives of children with complex health care needs and life limiting/threatening illness. Bernies research work draws particularly on narrative and appreciative inquiry and on arts-based methods as a means of engaging with children and eliciting stories of their experiences hopes beliefs and concerns. Bernie believes that stories are at the heart of the connections we make with children families and their experiences of pain. Lucy Bray is a Reader at Edge Hill University and Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust UK.  Annette Dickinson is a Senior Lecturer at AUT University New Zealand.  Maria Edwards is a Research Sister at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust UK.  Karen Ford is an Assistant Director of Nursing at the Royal Hobart Hospital and a Clinical Senior Lecturer University of Tasmania Australia.