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Managing the demands of chronic conditions is challenging for children and their families throughout the world. Chronic conditions are stressful for children and their families and adaptation is required to integrate the demands of chronic conditions into their everyday lives (Christian, 2016a). Children and adolescents are challenged to integrate the demands of chronic conditions while meeting their developmental needs. Parents, families, and caregivers are challenged to balance the demands of their child's chronic condition on a daily basis (Christian, 1993, 2003, 2010, 2016b). When these factors are combined, the need for parents and families to balance the demands associatedwith chronic conditions contributes to their stress and ability to adapt, while challenging children, their parents, and families in their everyday lives (Christian, 2016a). Moreover, this challenge to adapt to chronic conditions and integrate the management of chronic conditions exists throughout the world across different cultures and societies. Through nursing research, new evidence is generated and designed to improve the quality of nursing care and practice (Polit & Beck, 2017), as well as improve the health outcomes for children, their parents, and families (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2015; Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2014). Translation of research evidence into pediatric nursing practice is essential for improving the quality of nursing care for children, their parents, and families, as well as advances in pediatric nursing practice (Christian, 2011, 2013a, 2013b, 2014a, 2014b). In this issue of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, the overwhelming majority of the articles focus on a range of chronic conditions in children and adolescents, as well as how parents, families, and caregivers manage the demands of chronic conditions and integrate the chronic condition into their everyday lives. Moreover, these articles present research focused on a broad range of chronic conditions affecting children and their families from countries throughout the world, including Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Additionally, five articles report studies focused on: (a) instrument development for the assessment of infant sleep safety survey; (b) a comparison of three non-invasive thermometers for temperature measurement in hospitalized children; (c) best practices to determine frequency of head-to-toe assessments in hospitalized children; (d) differences in non-interventional radiology sedation practices for children and unanticipated adverse events and