When we began working in pediatric neurosurgery as advanced practice nurses, we searched for a reference that would explain the different neurosurgical conditions affecting our patients and teach us how to care for them. There was nothing to be found. We asked our colleagues for a reference and they, too, had found none. “Someone should write a book about how to care for pediatric neurosurgery patients,” we all said each time we met at the AANS pediatric neurosurgery section meeting. Finally, it dawned on us. We were the someone. We were the ones that have cared for these children over the years. We were the ones that should share.
