Rethinking the optimal organizational and nurse educational model in the light of the COVID‐19 pandemic

What is in this issue

“…Both critical commentaries in this issue tackle the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, but from substantially different perspectives. McBride and Tume 30 reflect on their paediatric intensive care unit (PICU)'s experience of admitting adult critically ill patients during the first and second waves of the pandemic and pose thought‐provoking questions about nursing education and organizational models. They argue that the difficulty in adapting to such unfamiliar working practices is compounded by the segregation between regional critical networks and the inexperience of children's nurses to care for critically ill adults and vice versa.…”