About kinderkrankenschwester

kinderkrankenschwester

kinderkrankenschwester is the specialist journal for pediatric nursing: published monthly since 1981 by the Lübeck-based Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, the profession's monthly. it is the highest-circulation specialist journal for health and pediatric nursing in the German-speaking world — the organ of the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Deutschland e.V. and the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Österreich, the associations' journal — as well as the pediatric-nursing expert committee of the German Society for Social Pediatrics and Youth Medicine, the expert committee's organ, the triple mandate, the profession's trust, the monthly promise, the Lübeck journal, the Hanseatic voice, the care professions' publisher, the Schmidt-Römhild house, the Lübeck tradition, since 1981, the unbroken monthly, the profession's companion, the nurses' journal, the children's care, the specialty's heart, the journal's soul, the monthly voice, always. With a distributed circulation of 3,871 copies (IVW II/2023), the journal informs competently and currently on all relevant care topics in inpatient and outpatient infant, child, and adolescent nursing.

Overview

kinderkrankenschwester appears monthly as the Fachzeitschrift der Gesundheits- und Kinderkrankenpflege: the specialist journal for pediatric nursing, ISSN 0723-2276, published by Schmidt-Römhild (Lübeck). The 2024 volume was the 43rd year. The print run is 4,000 copies; the distributed circulation 3,871 (IVW II/2023).

The journal is the organ of the professional associations: the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Deutschland e.V., the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Österreich, and the Fachausschuss Kinderkrankenpflege of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialpädiatrie und Jugendmedizin e.V. The journal positions itself as the mouthpiece (Sprachrohr) for all working in health and pediatric nursing — and as the specialist journal for an independent pediatric nursing profession. The kinderkrankenschwester.eu website is the digital home.

The Pediatric Nursing Profession

The pediatric-nursing profession that the journal serves — the Gesundheits- und Kinderkrankenpflege, the health and pediatric nursing — is the specialty's identity: the nurses caring for the infants, children, and adolescents in the hospitals' pediatric wards, the intensive-care units, the outpatient services, and the homes. The journal's advocacy — the specialist journal for an independent (eigenständige) pediatric nursing, the mouthpiece for all working in it — reflects the profession's self-understanding: not just the general nursing applied to children but the distinct specialty with its own knowledge, its own training, its own dignity.

The profession's challenges fill the journal: the staffing, the training reforms, the academization, the intensive-care demands, the family-centered care. The organ function serves the associations' representation: the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Deutschland, the Austrian sister association, the social-pediatrics expert committee — the organized profession's voice. In the nursing press where the general titles dominate, kinderkrankenschwester's specialty focus is the distinction: the pediatric nurses' own journal, monthly since 1981, the highest-circulation in the German-speaking world.

History

The journal's history begins in 1981: the first issue of kinderkrankenschwester, founded as the monthly for the emerging pediatric-nursing profession. The 43rd volume in 2024 marks over four decades of continuous publication: the journal accompanied the pediatric nursing through the professionalization — the training reforms, the academization debates, the intensive-care specialization.

The organ function grew: the journal became the organ of the German and Austrian pediatric-nursing professional associations and of the social-pediatrics expert committee — the associations' channel to their members, the profession's forum. The Schmidt-Römhild publishing house (Lübeck) provided the continuity: the Hanseatic specialist publisher for the care professions. The journal's claim — the highest-circulation specialist journal for health and pediatric nursing in the German-speaking world — reflects the sustained relevance.

Coverage and Content

The editorial focuses span the pediatric nursing: intensive care (Intensivpflege), clinical continuing education, pathology (Krankheitslehre), nursing education (Pflegeausbildung), nursing practice (Pflegepraxis), prevention (Prävention), social pediatrics (Sozialpädiatrie), continuing education (Weiterbildung) — plus nutrition, home pediatric nursing, and hygiene. Each issue also addresses legal and professional-policy questions and carries an extensive job market (Stellenmarkt).

The interdisciplinary exchange is the special value: the journal emphasizes the exchange with other specialties like the educational sciences and social pediatrics. The journal informs on all relevant care topics in inpatient and outpatient infant, child, and adolescent nursing — competently and currently, monthly. The professional-policy coverage serves the associations' advocacy: the independent pediatric nursing profession's interests.

The Schmidt-Römhild Verlag

The Schmidt-Römhild Verlag (Lübeck) is the Hanseatic specialist publisher: the publisher of kinderkrankenschwester and the care-professions media. The Lübeck house serves the northern German publishing tradition: the specialist journals for the health professions, the professional publishing with the association organs.

The Monthly Journal

The monthly rhythm that kinderkrankenschwester keeps — since 1981, the 43rd volume in 2024 — is the profession's continuity: the regular specialist information for the pediatric nurses, the month's relevant care topics collected and curated. The journal format serves the professional reading: the specialist articles, the continuing-education content, the legal and professional-policy questions, the job market.

The monthly delivers the package: the intensive-care knowledge, the clinical training, the pathology, the nursing education, the practice, the prevention, the social pediatrics — plus the nutrition, the home care, the hygiene. The interdisciplinary exchange (with the educational sciences, the social pediatrics) broadens the view. The extensive Stellenmarkt serves the careers. In the nursing media where the quarterlies are slow, the monthly is the profession's cadence: twelve times a year, the pediatric-nursing knowledge, since 1981.

Organization and Ownership

kinderkrankenschwester is published by the Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck; the journal is the organ of the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Deutschland e.V., the Berufsverband Kinderkrankenpflege Österreich, and the Fachausschuss Kinderkrankenpflege of the DGSPJ. The monthly's imprint is the Lübeck care-publishing tradition since 1981.

The Organ Function

The organ function — the journal as the Organ of the German and Austrian pediatric-nursing associations and the social-pediatrics expert committee — is the institutional anchor: the organized profession's channel to its members, the associations' voice in print. The organ function means the professional-policy coverage: the associations' positions, the training politics, the profession's advocacy for the independent pediatric nursing.

The function serves both sides: the associations reach their members through the trusted specialist journal; the journal gains the institutional authority and the member readership. The monthly rhythm delivers the association news with the specialist journalism. In the professional press where the association organs are often dry bulletins, kinderkrankenschwester combines both: the organ's authority with the highest-circulation specialist journal's journalism — the profession's voice and the profession's journal in one.

The Interdisciplinary Exchange

The interdisciplinary exchange that the journal emphasizes — with the educational sciences (Erziehungswissenschaften) and social pediatrics (Sozialpädiatrie) — is the pediatric nursing's nature: the children's care spanning the medical, the pedagogical, and the social. The journal's special value on this exchange reflects the practice: the pediatric nurses collaborating with the educators, the social pediatricians, the therapists, the families.

The exchange serves the holistic care: the infants, children, and adolescents need the medical nursing, the developmental support, and the social embedding. The journal's coverage — the social pediatrics, the prevention, the home care — bridges the disciplines. In the specialist press where the silos often dominate, kinderkrankenschwester's interdisciplinarity is the practice's mirror: the children's world as the undivided, the care as the team.

Digital Presence

The kinderkrankenschwester.eu website is the digital home: the current issue, the subscriptions, and the online content. The digital presence extends the monthly print for the pediatric-nursing professionals.

For pediatric nursing, kinderkrankenschwester is the journal: the monthly specialist journal from Lübeck since 1981, the profession's mouthpiece, today and tomorrow. With Schmidt-Römhild behind it, the journal serves the pediatric nurses: the practice, the education, and the profession, into the future, without compromise.