title: Growing need.
abstract: THE INCIDENCE of paediatric respiratory disease has increased over recent years giving nurses an opportunity to grow with the specialty and become providers of high quality care. Respiratory disease can affect all ages but advances in neonatal intensive care have given rise to a group of children who have persistent respiratory disease into early life. Asthma incidence continues to rise, for example, and can affect children of any age with many attendant clinical and management problems.
authors.affiliation: Edwina Wooler is paediatric respiratory nurse specialist, Maggie Bunker and Cathy Warde are cystic fibrosis nurse specialists, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton.
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bastian-Lee