Sage Nursing and Other Health Specialties

Children can experience illnesses and will often encounter procedures which can cause pain when they attend or are admitted to hospital. This experienced pain may be acute, chronic and/or persistent in nature. National and International guidelines are available directing Healthcare practitioners (HCPs) on how to assess and manage pain. Despite this, the assessment and management of children's pain remains a challenge within healthcare teams, and the burden of pain in children, and its impact on families and society is significant (Eccleston et al., 2021).

So, let's shine a light on pain across our healthcare curriculums and in our healthcare settings to ensure that our patients get the best possible, evidence-based care and avoid the fear and lack of confidence that their pain will be managed appropriately. We have a responsibility to review our education provision to ensure that specified content is included, we need to call for improved CPD funding for staff and we need to increase awareness within the healthcare setting of the short- and long-term impact of untreated pain in children.

In this episode of the JAG podcast series, JAG Editor-in-Chief Debra Dobbs interviews Dr. Othelia Lee, author of the entitled "Exploring the Use of Socially Assistive Robots Among Socially Isolated Korean American Older Adults" (coauthored by Kwi Ok Nah, Eun Mi Kim, Namkee G. Choi, and Do-Hyung Park).

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In this podcast, recorded by InnovAiT Podcast Editor Dr Sadiya Ayaz, Dr Abdallah Salim, a GP in South London, covers the basics of interpreting ECGs in primary care. This podcast is also available to view on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkynvvKUuqU.

Mayumi Willgerodt, editor of The Journal of School Nursing, interviews author Elissa Allen to discuss the article, "Adolescent Women's Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to High School Bathroom Use". The article can be found in the JOSN June 2025 Issue (Volume 41, Issue 3). To view the article, click here.

Martha Dewey Bergren, editor of The Journal of School Nursing, interviews author Kathleen Johnson to discuss the article, "Does School Nursing Benefit From Artificial Intelligence (AI)?". The article can be found in Volume 41, Issue 1.

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This JAG student podcast interviews author Dr. Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya regarding their article, "The Role of Life Satisfaction and Optimism for Successful Aging in Mid and Late Life", currently available OnlineFirst in the Journal of Applied Gerontology.

NASN School Nurse Editor, Catherine F. Yonkaitis, interviews authors Megan Lytle, Wendy Rau, and Sara Stoner about their article, "The Role of the School Nurse in Social-Emotional Assessment and Intervention Using the MTSS Framework" which can currently be found in Volume 39, Issue 6.

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