Nurses are ideally placed to inform parents about infant eye health, new research shows.

New research shows that Australian mothers look to early childhood health clinics and family care centres for infant eye health advice, with community nurses best placed to provide this. Almost half of mothers who have discussed their child's eye health with a healthcare professional listed staff at these centres among those they have turned to for advice, ranking them second only to GPs, at 72 per cent. However, 42 per cent of mothers with children under four have never discussed their child's eye health with a healthcare professional, found the research, funded by Wyeth Nutrition, which...