Nursing Children and Young People is a unique digital resource covering evidence-based practice in child health nursing. It aims to promote excellence in neonatal, infant, children’s and young people’s care.

The journal is available in print or digital formats and includes unlimited access to our website.

We publish news, analysis, features, original research, clinical updates and policy briefings, literature reviews, service evaluations, audits, case studies and opinion articles.

We also publish continuing professional development articles to inform, support and educate nurses working in this field of practice, and to help contributors and their readers prepare for revalidation. Areas of focus include:

• Acute care
• Community
• Complex care
• Neonatal care
• Long-term conditions
• Professional issues

Nursing Children and Young People is indexed on PubMed and BNI.

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Online publishing dates for Nursing Children and Young People journal 2025

Volume and issue	*Online date
January 37.1	Thursday 9 January
March 37.2	Thursday 6 March
May 37.3	Thursday 8 May
July 37.4	Thursday 3 July
September 37.5	Thursday 4 September
November 37.6	Thursday 6 November

*subject to change

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Subscribe to Nursing Children and Young People

Nursing Children and Young People is now available as part of RCNi Plus, a purpose-built platform that brings together RCNi’s extensive range of resources and new personalisation features to help you stay up to date with information relevant to your practice.

RCNi Plus includes:

• Customisable RCNi Plus dashboard - choose topics to build your dashboard and create your own personalised feed of resources based on your professional interests.
• Full access to RCNi’s 10 journals online, including Nursing Standard - an archive of thousands of clinical and CPD articles, the latest news, and practical careers advice.
• RCNi Learning - 175 evidence-based learning modules covering a range of clinical specialities and professional issues within nursing.
• RCNi Revalidation Portfolio – build your evidence for revalidation and be guided through the process with helpful progress alerts.
• Personalised newsletters - the latest news and developments in your area of nursing sent direct to your inbox.

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Organisational subscriptions

Organisations can also subscribe to Nursing Children and Young People on behalf of their nurses or students.

Find out more

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Brand information

Nursing Children and Young People
RCNi, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN

Subscription department
Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG
Tel: +44(0)345 772 6100

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Open access

RCNi journals offer open access publishing. To find out more see our open access information.

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Write for us

Are you interested in writing for Nursing Children and Young People? To find out more about submissions please see our author guidelines.

At RCNi we have lots of information available to help you successfully write for publication. Please see our Write for us section, which details the many ways you can share your experience and knowledge to the benefit of our nursing community.

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Copyright

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All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted, or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. Please see our terms and conditions for more details.
ISSN 2046-2336 (print)
ISSN 2046-2344 (online)