1st Edition

Emotional Labour in the Nursing Care of Children, Young People and their Families Theory and Practice

Edited By Mandy Brimble Copyright 2026
284 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This practical textbook uses case studies to highlight how emotional labour can arise and be managed in a range of settings where children’s nurses work. The book begins with an introduction to ideas about emotional labour and discusses their relevance to children’s nursing, emphasising that children’s nurses not only deal with the emotional needs of children and themselves, but also those of... Read more

Introduction

Mandy Brimble

PART ONE: Emotional Labour in Children's Nursing Practice

1: Emotional Labour in the Children’s Emergency Department Setting

Callula Blundell and Beth Pittaway

 

2: Emotional Labour in the Neonatal Intensive Care Setting

Julia Tod and Joelle Bowie-Hallam

 

3: Emotional Labour in the Children’s Critical Care Unit

Peter McNee

 

4: Emotional Labour in Children’s Medical Care

Amie Hodges and Dwynwen Barklam

 

5: Emotional Labour in Children’s Surgical Care

Pei Ling Ho and Mandy Brimble

 

6: Emotional Labour in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing

Kathryn Price and Mandy Brimble

 

7: Emotional Labour in Children’s Community Nursing

Emma Morgan and Mandy Brimble

 

8: Emotional Labour in Special School Nursing

Stacey Brown and Mandy Brimble

 

9: Emotional Labour in caring for CYP with Long-Term Conditions 

Peter McNee

 

10: Emotional Labour in Caring for CYP with Life-Threatening Conditions

Martina Nathan and Mandy Brimble

 

11: Emotional Labour in Caring for CYP with Life-Limiting Conditions

Mandy Brimble

 

12: Emotional Labour in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

Stephen McKenna Lawson

 

13: Emotional Labour in Caring for CYP as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Marianne Jenkins and Caroline Crossland

 

PART TWO: Challenges

14: Disenfranchised Grief

Julia Tod

 

15: Professional Integrity and Boundaries

Mandy Brimble and Martina Nathan

16: Building Resilience

Judith Benbow and Mandy Brimble

 

17: Emotional Intelligence

Mandy Brimble

 

18: Clinical Supervision

Michelle Moseley and Julia Tod

Biography

Mandy Brimble is an Emerita Reader in Children and Young People’s Nursing at Cardiff University School of Healthcare Sciences and Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She is a registered children’s nurse and health visitor.