AbstractNursing scholars have called for nursing approaches with children that ensure the promotion of their childhood, contesting dominant adult‐based approaches that are adapted for practice with children. Although the nursing literature includes many important advances in the promotion of child‐centered approaches, there are still significant gaps in fully recognizing the complexities of childhood within nursing. Within this paper, I (a) outline some key advances in nursing approaches with children, sometimes referred to as “Children's Nursing” (shifting away from “Pediatric Nursing” conceptions that may be focused more on diseases than childhood); (b) highlight key gaps in current conceptions of Children's Nursing, namely the inadequate integration of work from the interdisciplinary field of Childhood Studies which challenges dominant age‐based developmental models which discount children's voices and experiences as “immature”; and (c) propose a Childhood Ethics‐based framework that bridges advances in Children's Nursing with those within Childhood Studies, which I refer to as the VOICE Children's Nursing Framework. The latter is rooted in the recognition of (a) children as act
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