Mrs Julia Judd is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Children's Orthopaedics at University Hospital Southampton, UK. Her main interests are promoting the speciality of paediatric orthopaedic nursing and facilitating education and training for nurses. She convenes and co-chairs the annual paediatric orthopaedic conference based in Southampton and regularly presents at conference. Julia is involved with a number of national and international research projects and has published extensively. She is an active member of the RCN Paediatric Orthopaedic Group, a forum committee member of the RCN Society of Trauma and Orthopaedic Nursing, and a reviewer for the International Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing.