Author: Joan Simons

Dr Gosia M. Brykczynska is senior lecturer in Child Health at Thames Valley University. She was the RCN paediatric nurse representative on the RCPCH Ethics Advisory Committee 1989-2000, and has worked as International Officer at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and RCN Refugee Nurses Project Co-ordinator. Dr Joan Simons is Assistant Head of Department of Health and Social Care, Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, Milton Keynes. She is external examiner for Children”s Nursing courses at London South Bank University, and is on the editorial board for Journal of Child Health Care.